Murder twist to pupil death

Statesman News Service

MALDA, June 21: The unnatural death of Jhumpa Khatun, a Visva Bharati student in Malda on 13 June is becoming serious. To get to the bottom of this, the Malda police have decided to interrogate Rini Khatun, a post-graduate student of Santiniketan (VBU), who was close friend of the victim. According to the Malda superintendent of police, Mr DK Mondal, the police officials along with the relatives of the victim would leave for Shantiniketan tomorrow. Jhumpa had come home at Vivekananda Pally in the English Bazaar town during her summer vacation. She had been to Pakuahaat to visit her relatives, but went missing on her way back home. The girl’s relatives finally found her body on 15 June about 4.30 pm from the Mahananda river, near Sabhapur which falls under the Malda police station. Jhumpa’s parents had lodged a missing diary on 13 June with the English Bazaar police station. Yesterday her father Abed Hossain and her uncle Anwar Hossain along with the other relatives met the Malda SP and complained that she has been murdered. Jhumpa’s parents have also supplied some mobile numbers to the police which had been received before and after the recovery of the girl’s body. The police have taken Jhumpa’s cell phone into custody to learn about the call details. The police is also on the look out for a person named Ajad who had called Jhumpa several times both before and after she went missing. “ We expect to crack the case soon,” the Malda SP claimed.