Euro-Bangla Desk
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has arrested an accused in the murder case of Sohagi Jahan Tanu, a student of history department of Victoria Government College, Comilla. After 10 long years, the accused was arrested for the first time in that murder.
The name of the arrested accused is Hafizur Rahman. He is a former senior warrant officer of the army. Retired in 2023. This officer was working in Comilla cantonment at the time of Tanu murder.
PBI arrested Hafizur Rahman from his residence on Wednesday afternoon. Later produced in Comilla Sadar Court. He was then remanded for 3 days. Comilla Senior Judicial Magistrate Mominul Haque gave the order.
This time Tanu’s parents and younger brother Rubel Hossain were present.
Last April 6, the seventh investigating officer of this hot case, Tariqul Islam, sought the permission of the court to cross-match the DNA samples of the three suspects. The three suspects are former army sergeant Zahid, warrant officer Hafizur Rahman and soldier Shahinul Alam.
According to court sources, 80 hearing dates have been fixed so far in this much-discussed case. A total of seven officers from four agencies have investigated this sensational case over the past decade.On the evening of March 20, 2016, Tanu went to a house in Comilla Cantonment for tuition and did not return home. His body was found in a forest near the cantonment power house after searching.
The next day Tanu’s father Yar Hossain filed a murder case against the unknown accused at Comilla Kotwali Model Police Station. Initially, the police station, the district police’s detective branch (DB) and later the police’s criminal investigation department (CID) investigated the case for a long time but could not find any mystery.
CID handed over the documents of Tanu murder case to PBI’s Dhaka headquarters on October 21, 2020 on the instructions of the latest police headquarters. Police inspector of PBI headquarters investigated the case for the last four years. Mojibur Rahman. From September 2024, Inspector Md got the responsibility of the sixth investigation officer of the case. Tariqul Islam.
