JnU student's suicide: Classmate Amman, Assistant Proctor Din Islam remanded
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A Cumilla court placed Jagannath University (JnU) student Raihan Siddique Amman and Assistant Proctor Din Islam on remand in a case filed over instigating Fairuz Abontika, a law student of the university, to commit suicide.
"Senior Judicial Magistrate Abu Bakar Siddique today granted police a day remand of Din Islam and two days remand of Amman after a hearing on the case," Cumilla Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Firoz Hossain told The Business Standard.
Both the accused were present at the hearing with helmets and masks on, he added.
Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the accused on Saturday following the death of Abontika on the previous day.
They were handed over to the Cumilla police on Sunday.
Abontika hanged herself at her Cumilla residence around 10pm after accusing her classmate and the assistant proctor of the university in a Facebook post.
Later, Abontika's mother filed an abetment of suicide case against Din Islam and Amman with the Kotwali Model Police Station.
According to the case statement, Abontika's classmate Amman was sexually harassing her. When she complained to Assistant Proctor Din Islam, he insulted her instead of taking any action against Amman.
The DMP on Sunday said they have found the involvement of the two accused in Abontika's death.
"After inspecting the suicide note, the DMP promptly launched an investigation and arrested the two accused," Mahid Uddin said during a media briefing at the DMP Media Centre in the capital.
Meanwhile, the university administration has relieved Din Islam from his duty and suspended Amman.
The JnU administration also formed a four-member probe committee to investigate the incident.
In her Facebook post, Abontika wrote, "If I ever die by suicide, my classmate Amman and assistant proctor Din Islam, who supported him, will be solely responsible for my death. Instead of taking action, Din Islam defended Amman and threatened me with expelling from the university."
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