CID quizzes 5 people over Tonu murder

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today interrogated five people over the killing of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

A CID team, headed by Abdul Kahhar Akand, senior superintendent of police in Dhaka, took the five people including Tonu’s elder brother Nazmul Hossain, cousin Laiju Jahan, her friend Manisha and Ismail Hossian, an employee cantonment board, to Comilla CID office around 8:30am.

The team members recoded the statements of the five till 11:00am.

Earlier on Thursday, the team interrogated five army personnel at their office from 4:30pm to 1:30am.

Tonu, a second year history student and a theatre activist, was murdered near Comilla Cantonment area on March 20 night.

According to a press release of ISPR, the unconscious body of the 19-year-old college student was found in the bordering area of the cantonment by the victim’s father and he informed the military police.

Right away, Tonu was taken to the Combined Military Hospital there and the duty-doctor declared her dead.

Later, Tonu's father, Yar Hossain filed a murder case with Comilla Kotawali Police Station.