Doctors at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital initially recorded his death as suicide, but Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s forensic doctors said it was murder. Flawed autopsy reports also misdirected the police investigation into a 2016 double murder at a Rajshahi hotel. Also Read- Examining the alarming suicide trends in BangladeshPolice are even reluctant to further investigate cases where families insist that their loved ones were murdered. Police under pressurePolice defend their negligence in investigating incidents of apparent suicide, blaming their workload and the pressure to close cases quickly. Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Deputy Inspector General Bonoj Kumar also said they had found countless faults in numerous autopsy reports, which served to “misdirect the investigations”.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 09, 2018 20:15 UTC