Munia’s Death: Bashundhara MD Seeks Anticipatory Bail

Sayem Sobhan Anvir, the Managing Director of the Bashundhara Group, has filed an anticipatory bail plea with the High Court in a case brought by Nusrat Jahan, the elder sister of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia, who allegedly committed suicide, on charges of killing her sister after rape.

The plea has been placed on the cause list for today's hearing in the High Court bench of Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar, according to an official for the concerned HC bench.

On September 6, Nusrat Jahan filed a case against eight people, including Sayem Sobhan Anvir, with the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8.

The other accused are - Anvir's father Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, Anvir's mother Afroza Begum, wife Sabrina, Sharmin, Saifa Rahman Mim, Model Faria Mahbub Piasha and Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon. The plantiff said in the case statement that they threatened Munia with death if she did not leave Dhaka.

For further investigation, the matter was turned over to the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Munia's body was discovered hanging in a flat in the capital's Gulshan neighborhood on April 26.

Nusrat, Munia's sister, filed a case against Sayem Sobhan, who supposedly had a relationship with Munia, on April 27th, accusing him of 'abetting suicide.'

The police did not hold or question Sayem in the matter after three months of investigation. On July 19, police presented the final investigation report about Munia's killing, omitting the name of lone suspect Anvir.

On August 18, the chargesheet was also accepted by the court. Munia's family also filed a no confidence appeal against the police report, which was also dismissed by Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury.