Mother reiterates call for justice

With a Dhaka court having granted her appeal on Wednesday for exhuming and conducting a second autopsy, Razia Sultana, mother of Nayar Sultana, yesterday reiterated her demand for justice, seeking the prime minister's intervention.

On October 16, the body of Nayar who played Tuni, a young girl in a popular 80s drama serial “Ei Shob Din Ratri” on Bangladesh Television, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her house at the capital's Gulshan.

Her husband Al Amin was arrested that day centring a murder case Razia filed. He later got bail.

The first autopsy report, conducted by Assistant Prof Sohel Mahmud of Dhaka Medical College, terms it a suicide.

Al Amin and his family members manipulated the autopsy report with bribes and abusing power, Razia alleged at a press conference in the capital's Crime Reporters' Association.