Mastermind school’s rape victim laid to rest in Kushtia

Mastermind's 'O' level student who was raped and murdered in the capital, has been laid to rest at her village home in Kushtia district on Saturday morning.

The 17-year old victim Anushka Noor Amin, was buried at a graveyard at Gopalpur village around 7:30am after Namaz-e-Janaza, reports ProthomAlo.

The victim's body reached her village home from Dhaka around 2am.

After the burial, the locals staged a protest and human chain demanding exemplary punishment for all the accused.

The girl's parents complained that the police and the hospital authorities were distressing them about her age. 

They claimed their daughter was born in 2003. According to the passport and birth certificate, the girl is 17 years old but the age of their daughter was written 19 to weaken the case.

The victim's father alleged that he had asked the police to charge Fardin Iftekhar Dihan and his three friends. But the police accused only one of them.

The girl's mother said she rushed to the hospital from work after receiving the call of her daughter's state. She complained that the hospital authorities and the police did not allow her to see the girl for an hour and a half.

She also claimed she had never seen Fardin - prime accused - claiming he could never be her daughter's friend. She alleged that he had planned to kill his daughter. 

The lone accused in a rape and murder case, also a friend of the victim, Fardin Iftekhar Dihan (18) landed in jail Friday after giving confessional statement in a Dhaka court.

Kalabagan police produced the O-level student before the court, while Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid recorded his statement, said Abul Hasan, assistant commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

The victim's father filed a case on Friday under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, accusing Dihan.

According to the case statement, the victim's parents left home for work on Thursday morning.

Around noon, the girl called her mother telling her that she was going to a friend's home to bring some study materials.

In the evening, Dihan brought the girl to Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in a critical condition, and the on-duty doctors later pronounced the teenager dead.

Before that, Dihan had called the girl's mother and said she was taken to hospital since she had fainted after arriving at his residence.

The mother then rushed to the hospital where the duty doctor informed her that her daughter was "murdered after rape".