Daughter of July martyr to be laid to rest beside father in Patuakhali
The daughter of July martyr Jasim Uddin, who reportedly died by suicide in Dhaka weeks after surviving a rape incident, will be laid to rest beside her father's grave in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali.
Her funeral prayer was held at her family home in Pangashia union after Maghrib today, following which she will be buried alongside her late father.
According to family members, the young woman was found dead last night at a rented house on Road No 6 in the Shekhertek area of Mohammadpur, Dhaka.
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She was discovered hanging inside the house and was rushed to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead upon arrival.
Officer-in-charge of Dumki Police Station, Mohammad Zakir Hossain, said an investigation was underway to determine the cause of death.
Leaders of the National Citizens' Party (NCP), including Chief Organiser (Northern Region) Sarjis Alam, Joint Member Secretary Humayra Noor, and Joint Member Secretary Faisal Mahmud Shanto, went to Patuakhali to attend the funeral and offer condolences to the bereaved family.
The victim had recently endured a harrowing ordeal.
On 18 March, while travelling to her maternal grandparents' house in Pangashia, she was allegedly gang-raped by two individuals, Sakib and Sifat, from the Naldoyani area.
Displaying immense courage, she personally filed a case against the accused at Dumki Police Station.
Both suspects were subsequently arrested and presented before the court, and the case remains under investigation.
Family members revealed that following the assault, she had been grappling with severe mental trauma.
They said the burden of social stigma, combined with fear of not receiving justice, had plunged her into deep depression, ultimately leading her to take her own life.
Her father, Jasim Uddin, was killed by police during last year's July Uprising in Dhaka, a loss that had already cast a long shadow over the family.
