3 remanded over teacher’s death in snatching incident

A Dhaka court on Monday placed three accused on a five-day remand in a case filed over the death of a teacher who fell from a moving auto-rickshaw after a snatcher pulled her bag in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

The other accused are Md Poni alias Para Poni alias Poni Gazi, Cedric Julian and Md Rakib Hossain, 24.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Siddiq Azad passed the order following a police plea, said Prosecution Division Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam.

The court passed the order after the investigation officer, SI Shahin of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, produced the accused before the court and sought a 10-day remand for each of them.

According to the case statement, the deceased, Ranjila Parveen, 56, was the headmistress of Bagbari Government Primary School in Gabtali upazila of Bogura.

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On 29 August, the accused allegedly snatched her bag in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Manik Mia Avenue while she was travelling by auto-rickshaw with her husband to see an eye specialist.

The force of the pull caused her to fall from the moving auto-rickshaw onto the road, leaving her critically injured with a severe head injury. She was first taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital and was later being taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital when doctors declared her dead.

Following the incident, her husband filed a case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. The accused were later arrested from different parts of the capital on Sunday.