Plea filed for exhuming Nargis' body

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking its order on the government to exhume the body of Nargis Begum, who was allegedly raped and killed in India about two months back, for a post-mortem.

The petition also wanted an HC order on police to give the victim's family necessary documents belonging to Nargis including her passport. 

Nargis, 32, of Sonadanga in Khulna was raped and killed by criminals in Firozabad of Uttar Pradesh state in March. She went to India with her daughter Kakoli and mother Anwara Begum on March 7 for treatment.

On March 9, the three started off for New Delhi from Kolkata by a train. When they reached a station around 3:30am the following day, some people approached them and said they had arrived in New Delhi, Nargis's mother Anowara told The Daily Star in April.

When getting off the train they left a bag behind which Nargis went back to retrieve. Criminals then kidnapped her and took her away in an auto-rickshaw, she said.

Uttar Pradesh police said they found her body near the railway line in Firozabad district in the second week of March.

Police chief of the state Pijush Sreebastab told BBC Bangla that Nargis was not raped. According to the post mortem report, she was run over by a train, he claimed.

Nargis's maternal aunt Rahela Begum and Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation's chief Alena Khan jointly submitted the writ petition to the HC yesterday saying Sonadanga police received Nargis's body and handed it over to her family, but they did not give any documents to the family.  

After a post-mortem, whether she was raped and the real cause of death would be known, said Alena.