Tasfia murder: No evidence found after 9-year probe, 6 accused exonerated

A Chattogram court has exonerated six accused in the widely discussed Tasfia Amin murder case after multiple investigations over nine years failed to establish that the schoolgirl's death was a murder.

Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Md Abubakar Siddique yesterday (25 June) accepted the final investigation report, cleared the six accused, and ordered the case to be archived.

The latest report, submitted on 11 June by Assistant Commissioner of Police Jamal Uddin Chowdhury, found no credible evidence to support the murder allegation.

The case had previously been investigated by the local police, the Detective Branch (DB), the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The CID's final report, submitted on 30 January 2025, concluded that Tasfia died by drowning and that no evidence established her death as a murder.

Tasfia's father and plaintiff, Md Amin, challenged the CID report, prompting the court to order a reinvestigation. The fresh probe was assigned to Patenga Police Station by ACP Jamal Uddin Chowdhury.

According to the case statement, Tasfia, a ninth-grade student at an English-medium school in Chattogram, was supposed to return home by autorickshaw from the Gol Pahar intersection on 1 May 2017.

Instead, she ended up at Patenga Sea Beach, where police recovered her body the following day.

Investigators said they could not identify the autorickshaw or its driver and found no direct, circumstantial, or scientific evidence to support the murder allegation during the nine-year investigation.