Munia murder: Mim sent to jail, bail hearing Thursday

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Saifa Rahman Mim, an arrested accused in a case filed on charge of rape and murder of college girl Mosarat Jahan Munia at Gulshan in the capital, was sent to jail on Wednesday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mainul Islam passed the order after she was produced before the court by Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Inspector Alauddin who is also the investigating officer of the case.

The investigator also did not submit any remand prayer on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, Alauddin submitted a petition for keeping her in jail after producing her before the court.

Defence lawyer Advocate Gazi Shah Alam submitted a petition for her bail.

The court fixed Thursday for hearing the bail petition.

Earlier, on Tuesday, PBI Special Crime (South) arrested Mim for interrogation from her Dhanmondi residence, said PBI Additional Superintendent of Police (Law and Media Branch) Md Abu Yusuf.

On September 6 last year, Munia’s sister filed a rape and murder case against the Bashundhara Group MD and seven others with Dhaka’s 8th Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children’s Repression.

The court, after recording the complaint, directed the PBI to submit a report on it.

The seven other accused in the case are: Anvir’s parents Bashundhara Group’s Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Shah Alam and Afroza Begum, Anvir’s wife Sabrina Sayem and model Faria Mahbub Piyasha, friend Saifa Rahman Mim and owner of the flat Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon and his wife Sharmim Akhter.

On April 26 of the same year, police recovered the body of the 21-year-old Munia hanging from a ceiling fan of her bedroom in a Gulshan flat.

Munia’s elder sister, Nusrat Jahan Tania, filed a case against Anvir that night accusing him of incitement to suicide.

According to Tania, her sister, Munia, was in a relationship with Anvir who regularly visited her at the Gulshan apartment.