Dhaka: Dhaka University students observed a strike in the campus boycotting classes demanding the justice for slain college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

Beginning at 7:00am, the strike ended at 12:00pm on Sunday, 3 April. No classes but scheduled exams were held during the strike.

Supporting the strike, students took positions at the university’s Arts, Social Science, Business Studies faculty, Karzon Hall and Annex buildings.

Earlier, Dhaka University student Uzma Tazrian, on behalf of students, called the strike after a protest rally at Shahbagh intersection, Dhaka on 29 March.

To protest the murder and demanding immediate arrest of the killer(s), DU students along with students of more than five educational institutions of the capital have called strike at all educational institutions across the country for today.

The Gonojagoron Mancha and 13 left leaning student organisations have expressed solidarity with the strike.

Bangladesh Chhatra Union has called another strike at all schools and colleges in the country on Monday on the same ground.

Sohagi Jahan Tonu, 19, a second year History student of Comilla Victoria College, and a member of Victoria College Theatre, was found dead on 20 March, hours after she had gone out of her home at Comilla Mainamati Cantonment for private tuition.

Later, Tonu's father, Yar Hossain filed a murder case with Comilla Kotawali Police Station.

Tonu’s mysterious death triggered countrywide outcry with protesters seeking exemplary punishment of her killers.

A joint CID team of Dhaka and Comilla visited the crime scene in Comilla Moinamoti Cantonment and nearby areas on Saturday.

Kotwali Police Station in the city and local Detective Branch (DB) of police investigated the case filed by Yaar Hossain, an employee of Comilla Cantonment Board.

On March 26, the family members, including the parents, were brought to the office of RAB-11 in Comilla city at about 3:30am from their Mirzapur village home in Muradnagar upazila.

They went to the village to bury the 19-year-old college student.

The RAB members dropped them at their Comilla Cantonment residence at about 5:00am after the interrogation, family members said. Khorshed Alam, commander of RAB-11 in Comilla, confirmed this.

Again in the afternoon the same day, detectives took the family members from the Cantonment house to Kotwali Police Station for interrogation.

Visiting the crime scene on Thursday, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman said the family of the victim should not be harassed in the name of collecting information or by any means.

The body of Tonu was exhumed on Wednesday for a fresh autopsy as police say they found the first one not matching their inquest report.

However, the findings of the first autopsy were not made public.

Meanwhile, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at a programme in the capital on Saturday said, ‘The way the investigation is going on, soon we will be able to disclose how the murder was committed and who were involved.’