After nine days of disappearance, the throat-slit body of Dhaka University student Hafizur Rahman was found in the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday evening.
Hafizur Rahman, a student of Information Science and Library Management Department, was also the general secretary of DU Mime Action Society.
Shahbagh police officer-in-charge Mohammad Mamun Ur Rashid said that Hafizu’s brother Habibur Rahman and friends came to inquire about him. When they were shown photographs of an unidentified body kept at the morgue, they identified it as Hafiz, the OC said.
Mamun Ur Rashid said on the evening of May 15 a bare-bodied young man wearing three-quarter pants took a machete from a coconut seller in front of Dhaka Medical College Hospital and slit his own throat saying, “Forgive me.”
He was running around with blood dripping from his neck and on information, police rushed there and took him to the hospital, he said.
On the way to the hospital, the young man also tried to flee jumping off the rickshaw, said Mamun.
He was also taken to the operation theatre and died around 10:00pm, he said.
The police then filed a case of unnatural death and confiscated the machete.
The identity of the young man could not be ascertained at the time. "No mobile phone or bag was found with him. Fingerprints were also taken to identify his national identity card, but it could not be identified, he said. A post mortem examination was also carried out.
Police in the night handed over Hafizur's body to his family.
Police said they would investigate further if anyone from his family or friends lodge a complaint.
Hafizur’s friends said that Hafizur came to the university campus to meet his friends in the afternoon of May 15, the day after Eid-ul-Fitr. After gossiping with them in Curzon Hall, Hafizur left for his Brahmanbaria home around 8:00pm to 9:00pm. Since then, he remained untraced and her mother Samsun Nahar filed a general diary with Kasba police station last Friday.
