Body of school girl found hanging

Police recovered the hanging body of a school girl from Sadar upazila in Kishoreganj district on Sunday afternoon after six months of her elopement.

Police recovered the hanging body of a school girl from Sadar upazila in Kishoreganj district on Sunday afternoon after six months of her elopement.
The deceased was Shahzadi Nafia alias Sadia, 16, wife of Badshah, a resident of Kalaihati village in the upazila. She was a student of class IX of Azim Uddin High School in Kishoreganj town.
Police said Badshah and Sadia secretly got married by making an affidavit in the court on February 26 this year.
After that, the body of Sadia was found hanging from the ceiling at in-laws house on Sunday.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Kishoreganj Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Meanwhile, Badshah and his family members went into hiding after the incident.
Fatema Begum, mother of the deceased, claimed that Badshah along with his family members killed her daughter and later hanged her inside the house.
However, the truth behind the death, whether it is suicide or murder, would be revealed after postmortem report, said Kishoreganj Sadar Model Police Station officer in-charge Mohammad Daud.