HC summons DMCH director

The High Court yesterday summoned the director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for not taking any step for conducting post mortem of the body of Nusrat Jahan Meghna, a student of Uttara University, as per its directive.
During hearing a writ petition, the court directed Brigadier General Mostafizur Rahman, director of DMCH, to appear before it by 10:30am today to explain the matter.
Petitioner's counsel Manzill Murshid told the court that the body of Nusrat Jahan Meghna was exhumed and then brought to DMCH morgue on January 19 as per its January 18 directives.
The DMCH authorities did not conduct the post mortem of the body in last three days, although her relatives requested its director to conduct it, he said.
Manzill said that the DMCH director did not take any step rather advised the relatives of Meghna to approach the forensic department of the hospital for having the post mortem, which is a similar to violation of the court order.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim yesterday passed the order after a hearing.
The court on January 18 responding to the writ petition directed the DMCH director to form a three-member committee to conduct further post-mortem of the body and submit 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.
The doctors of Gazipur hospital also gave a "false" post-mortem report of Meghna, she said seeking directives from the HC to exhume Meghna's body for further examination.