A murder case has been filed in connection with the deaths of a woman and her two daughters, seven days after their bodies were recovered from District Council Dak Bungalow in Barguna town.
The victims have been identified as Iti Rani ,34, and her two daughters, Aradha Biswas ,12, and Anuradha Biswas ,3.
Dulal Chandra Biswas, the husband of the deceased, filed the case against unidentified individual at Barguna Sadar Police Station at 1am on Tuesday.
The Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the station, Abdul Alim, confirmed the registration of the case.
Their bodies were discovered by a cleaner on the afternoon of 3 June in a room on the western side of the Dak Bungalow’s third floor.
Immediately following the discovery, Barguna Superintendent of Police (SP) Kudrat-e-Khuda claimed the incident appeared to be a “planned suicide” before a and autopsy was conducted.
Nazrul Islam Molla, Zila Parishad Administrator and District BNP Convener, reportedly voiced the same opinion.
However, the relatives of the deceased have rejected the suicide theory, with Dulal maintaining that his wife and daughters were victims of a pre-planned murder.
Dulal alleged that he faced repeated obstacles while trying to seek legal recourse.
He said he attempted to file a case on Saturday night following religious ceremonies, but the police refused to accept it.
A subsequent attempt to file the case in court on Sunday was also unsuccessful, as the court reportedly directed him to wait for the autopsy report.
Dulal further alleged that when the police finally agreed to register the case on Monday night, they refused to name the Dak Bungalow’s caretaker, Liton, as an accused.
He claimed he was eventually forced to file the case against “unidentified person”.
“We are confused; we don’t know if the police are misleading us,” Dulal said, adding that the authorities were causing delays under the guise of reviewing CCTV footage.
In response, OC Abdul noted that while the murder case was recorded on Tuesday, the police had already initiated an unnatural death case on the night of 3 June.
The incident has caused significant public outcry. On 4 June, relatives held human chains and protest marches to demand justice, citing delays in the autopsy process and condemning the police’s initial categorisation of the deaths as suicide.
