DHAKA, Sep 3, 2022 (BSS) – A Dhaka Court today sent Shaheen Alam, 48, father of a female student of BRAC University- who committed suicide in city’s Dakkhin Khan area on August 27, to jail for allegedly abetting the suicide.

As Alam was produced before the court, the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case pleaded for keeping the arrestee in jail till the investigation is over. On the other hand, the lawyer of the defendant pleaded for granting his bail.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Humayun Kabir scrapped the bail plea and ordered to send him to the jail.

On September 1, Alam was placed on a one-day remand by another Metropolitan Magistrate Shuvra Chakrabarty.

Alam was arrested by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from Gafargaon area in Mymensingh district on August 31st for his alleged involvement in provoking his daughter Sanjana Mosaddika, a second year English student of private BRAC University, to commit suicide.

Body of Sanjana Mosaddika, 21, was recovered by police on August 27, who allegedly committed suicide by jumping off a 12-storey building in city’s Dakshinkhan Mollartek area.

Police sources said they found a note written before the suicide, where Sanjana blamed her father for her death.

Later, her mother Ummse Salma filed a case against her father alleging that the victim had been tortured by him for a long time.