Tonu’s father serves legal notice to doctors for ‘delaying’ autopsy report

The father of murdered college girl Sohagi Jahan Tonu has sent legal notices to three doctors for ‘intentionally’ delaying the report of the second autopsy conducted on her body.

Comilla Medical College Principal Mohsinuzzaman Chowdhury, its forensics chief Kamda Prasad Saha and Sharmin Sultana, who took part in her first autopsy, said they received the notice on Wednesday.

The notice served by Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain, an office secretary at Comilla Cantonment, threatened legal measures against the doctors over the first autopsy report which ruled out rape and also for ‘delaying’ the report of the second autopsy, conducted following a court order.

“It said legal measures will be taken if we don’t reply within seven days,” said Mohsinuzzaman.

It has been almost two months since Tonu’s body was exhumed from her grave at Comilla’s Mirzapur village for another autopsy on Mar 30.

The first report drew flak from protesters, who are demanding justice for the Victoria College student for being inconclusive about the cause of death.

On May 16, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing her murder, said seminal fluid of ‘several’ persons were found in the DNA tests.

Tonu lived with her family in a staff quarter inside Comilla Cantonment.

On Mar 20, she left home to tutor a student in another quarter inside the premises. Her father went searching for her after she did not return. He found her body near a path amid the bushes between the two housing quarters.

Yaar Hossain told police he saw several unidentified men hurrying out of the place.

Meanwhile, her mother Anwara Begum named two soldiers of the cantonment and claimed interrogating them would solve the murder mystery.