Exhume body of Meghna

The High Court yesterday directed the deputy commissioner of Gazipur to exhume the body of Nusrat Jahan Meghna, a student of Uttara University, for further post-mortem at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Responding to a writ petition, the court directed the DMCH director to form a three-member committee to conduct the post-mortem on Meghna and to submit the report to it as early as possible.
Phulbanu, Meghna's mother, on January 17 filed the writ petition claiming that her daughter was tortured and murdered at her husband's house on January 5.
There were injury marks on her body but her in-laws said that she committed suicide, Phulbanu said.
The doctors also gave a false post-mortem report of Meghna, she said seeking directives from the HC to exhume Meghna's body for further examination.
After hearing the petition, the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim directed Phulbanu to give Tk 20,000 to the District Commission for exhuming her daughter's body.
The court also fixed January 30 for further hearing on the writ petition, said Manzill Murshid, counsel for the petitioner.
Md Habibullah, civil surgeon of Gazipur and Dr Md Liakat Ali of Gazipur Hospital appeared before the HC yesterday as per its Tuesday's summons.
The doctors told the court that they conducted the post-mortem properly and found that Meghna committed suicide.