3 sent to jail after remand over headteacher's death in mugging near parliament
The three suspects were arrested two days after the headteacher died following an snatching attempt near parliament.
A Dhaka court today (5 September) sent three accused to jail after they completed a five-day remand in a case over the death of a headteacher who fell from a rickshaw and died after muggers allegedly pulled her handbag near parliament in Dhaka.
The accused are Md Poni, alias Para Poni, alias Poni Gazi; Cedric Julian, 24; and Md Rakib Hossain, 24.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ripon Hossain passed the order following a petition by police.
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Rafiqul Islam, sub-inspector of the Dhaka Metropolitan Prosecution Division, confirmed the development.
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station Sub-Inspector Shahin, the case's investigation officer, produced the three accused before the court after their five-day remand and sought their detention in jail.
There was no petition from the defence, and the court subsequently ordered that they be sent to jail.
The court had earlier granted police a five-day remand for the three suspects on 31 August.
According to the case statement, the deceased, Ronjila Parvin, 56, was the headteacher of Bagbari Government Primary School in Gabtali upazila of Bogura.
On 29 August, she and her husband, Md Abdul Matin, were travelling by autorickshaw to see an eye specialist.
At around 5:55am, when they were passing the road near Gate 12 of the National Parliament complex on Manik Mia Avenue, snatchers riding a motorcycle grabbed and forcefully pulled her handbag.
The force of the tug caused Parvin to fall from the moving autorickshaw onto the road, where she sustained severe head injuries, according to the complaint.
She was first taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in critical condition and was later being taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital when doctors declared her dead, the case statement says.
Her husband filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Following the filing of the case, Rapid Action Battalion-2 arrested the three accused in separate raids in different parts of the capital on 30 August.
RAB also seized a smartphone and cash allegedly snatched during the incident, along with a Yamaha R15 motorcycle allegedly used in the crime, according to police.
