Tasfia Amin, a schoolgirl who was found dead in Patenga of Chattogram on May 2 last, committed suicide by drowning herself, according to a police report.
Sub-Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Swapon Kumar Sarkar, also investigation officer (IO) of a case filed over the incident, submitted the report on Sunday to the prosecution section of the court in Chattogram.
The report was submitted after four and a half months of investigation, report UNB, bdnews24.com.
DB Additional Deputy Commissioner Abu Bakr Siddique said, “After analysing the circumstances, post-mortem examination and viscera reports, and statements of 16 witnesses, we are certain that she committed suicide by drowning.”
Drowning was mentioned as the reason for the death, he said.
Abu Bakr also said they also found nothing suspicious in forensics and DNA test that led them to conclude that the girl, Tasfia Amin, killed herself.
The detectives also recommended acquitting the six people accused in a murder case started by the victim’s father.
The investigation report, however, does not mention specific reasons behind the ‘suicide’.
Meanwhile, family members of the schoolgirl rejected the police report, saying they will file a no-confidence petition with the court.
Her mother Naima Khanam claimed that Tasfia did not commit suicide. "There's no reason for her to kill self."
On May 2, police recovered Tasfia’s body from the pier no. 18 at Patenga. Her family identified her later from photos of the body posted on Facebook.
Tasfia, a grade nine student of Sunshine Grammar School, an English-medium institution in the port city, went out with her boyfriend to a restaurant in the evening of May 1.
Police arrested the boyfriend and two of his senior friends after Tasfia’s father Mohammad Amin started the case.
The case was transferred to the Detective Branch on July 7.
Police said CCTV footage of the restaurant showed Tasfia and her boyfriend had left it by separate auto rickshaws.
Shopkeepers near the scene where the body was discovered said they had seen Tasfia walk along the river bank and heard someone cry sometime later, DB official Abu Bakr said.
The shopkeepers also went searching for her at the time but found nothing, the detective added.
Police had also looked for the autorickshaw that Tasfia took after she had left the restaurant but could not find it as they failed to get the registration number.
