Police recovered the body of a female garment worker hanging by the neck from a tree branch at Botanical Garden in the city yesterday morning.
The deceased Sharmin Akter Julia, 19, daughter of late Jalal Khan of Rupnagar tin shed colony, was a worker of Banga Garments at section seven of Pallabi in the city.
Officer-in-Charge Abdul Latif of Shah Ali Police Station said the garden staffs informed police of the body which they noticed hanging with a piece of scarf at about 7:00am.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy, he added.
Julia’s maternal uncle Anik Rahman said Julia went to her workplace on Saturday morning and didn’t come back.
Anik said they asked some of her colleagues about her but they said Julia didn’t go that day.
Julia’s family members suspect that a male friend of Julia, a youth who runs a grocery at Rupnagar, might have killed her and hung the body.
Police suspect it to be a suicide incident and said they found no injury marks on the body.
