Police yesterday arrested another accused in the case for murder of teenage rape victim Hena Akhter who was whipped following a fatwa at Noria upazila in Shariatpur. Latif Mirmalot, one of the local arbiters on January 24 that ordered Hena to be whipped 101 times, was arrested at his relative’s house in Siddheswari in the ... Read more
hena murder
Courtroom shell-shocked
Shariatpur civil surgeon reads out injury details As the Shariatpur civil surgeon yesterday read out in the High Court the fresh autopsy report citing injury marks all over Hena’s body, people in the courtroom seethed with rage, some even shouted expletives. Only nine days back, an autopsy conducted at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital did not find ... Read more