A student of Dhaka City College on Sunday night succumbed to injuries she had sustained while attempting to commit suicide after being kidnapped by a stalker and taken to Sirajganj.
The victim, Aireen Akter Asha, 19, daughter of Anwar Hossain, died in Square Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday night.
Asha was a management department student of Dhaka City College.
Her father lodged a case against Zihan, 20, and his cohort Shaurav, 20, of Sirajganj, on charge of kidnap and sexual harassment of Asha that led to her death.
Zihan’s father Sagar Ahmed is a local influential leader of Juba League.
In the case, Anwar Hossain said Zihan pursued and harassed Asha wherever she had gone. A year ago, Zihan, with the help of some of his cohorts kidnapped her at Sirajganj and freed her after a few days. To escape constant harassment, Asha’s family left Sirajganj and rented an apartment at Panthapath in Dhaka. After moving to Dhaka, Asha, who passed the Higher Secondary Examinations from Sirajganj College, enrolled at Dhaka City College but had no respite as soon Zihan appeared in Dhaka and continued to pursue her.
On July 15, Zihan kidnapped Asha again on her way to college, took her to Sirajganj and kept her in confinement at his house. She was freed and handed over to her family on July 16 after local influential people intervened. On the same night, Asha tried to commit suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling.
Asha’s parents with the help of local people took her to Sirajganj General Hospital from where she was shifted to Square Hospital in Dhaka on the next morning where she died on Sunday night.
The body was brought to her village home at Malshapara in Sirajganj sadar on Monday.
Asha was buried in Malshapara graveyard without post-mortem examination.
Mostafa Harun, the sadar police officer-in-charge, said a case had been recorded in this connection but no one was arrested yet. Zihan’s cohorts did not allow local journalists to visit Asha’s family on Monday.
-With New Age input
