Munia buried beside parents’ graves in Cumilla
The 21-year-old Munia, a lover of a managing director of country’s one of the largest industrial conglomeratesas, was a second-year student and HSC exam candidate at Mirpur Cantonment Public School and College.
Earlier, Munia’s body was brought at her elder sister’s house at Bagichagaon in Cumilla city in the afternoon.
After arrival of the body, Munia’s elder sister Ishrat Jahan Tania said Munia used to write diary. “Much information can be found there. However, it will be clear through investigation whether it was a suicide or murder,” she said.
The deceased Munia’s elder sister Ashiqur Rahman Sabuj said, “It seems very unusual that Munia had committed suicide though I had no contact with her for a long time. The incident seems to be very mysterious.”
Following the namaj-e-janaza, local neighbours said Munia’s father Md Shafiqur Rahman was a valiant freedom-fighter and Cumilla’s Awami League leader. Munia and Tania had a long strained relationship with their elder brother Ashiqur Rahman. Because of it, Munia refrained from going to her house in Cumilla.
After recovery of the body of Munia from a flat at Gulshan, her sister, Nusrat Jahan Tania, filed a case with Gulshan police station, accusing Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, who had rented the flat for her, of abetting the suicide.
Tania filed the case under Section 306 of the Bangladesh Penal Code in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the case statement.
Later, a Dhaka court Tuesday imposed a travel ban on Sayem Sobhan Anvir, barring him from leaving the country.
According to the case statement, Bashundhara MD Sayem and Munia had known each other over the last two years.
They went out for dates at different restaurants and started talking over the phone, developing a relationship.
In 2019, Sayem rented an apartment for Munia, presenting their relationship as that of husband and wife. A photo of them as a couple was framed in their apartment.
When news of Sayem’s extramarital affair came to light before his family, his mother summoned Munia through another lady named Piasa, threatened Munia and asked her to leave Dhaka.
Under such circumstances, assuring her that he would marry her, Sayem sent Munia back to Comilla.
Sayem convinced Munia to return to Dhaka and she moved in at the Gulshan flat on March 1. “Sayem forcibly rented the flat using my husband’s and my National ID cards,” the plaintiff, Taniat, said.
According to the case statement, Munia had got into an argument again with Sayem after photos of an iftar party that she attended with the landlord’s family were shared on social media by the landlord’s wife on April 23.
Sayem expressed fears that Piasa, a Facebook friend of the landlord’s wife, would notify his mother about the recent development, as per the case statement.
“The accused told my sister to go back to Comilla and he would leave for Dubai on April 27, fearing that his mother would find out about his relationship again and kill my sister,” Tania said.
According to the case statement, it was mentioned that Munia’s life was under threat and she might get murdered if Sayem’s parents discovered their relationship.
The plaintiff Tania, in a case statement, said that her sister had told her that the accused would marry her and that they would live abroad, especially since if they remained in Bangladesh, Sayem’s parents would kill Munia, even if they would do nothing about their son.
A leaked audio record reportedly between Sayem and Munia reveals a male voice accusing a female person of stealing money worth Tk 50 lakhs. The female was heard crying and repeatedly denying that claim while the male voice repeatedly curses and uses expletives.
