The family still believes that Nowshin, a brilliant student of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College who had passed the SSC examination with GPA-5, was killed in an incident of homicide by her uncle Zahidul Haque Rintu. They term the autopsy report as 'somehow influenced'.

The autopsy report submitted on July 21 determined Nowshin's death as a suicide. The family demanded that another autopsy should be done.

Shamsunnahar, mother of Nowshin, who passes her days now staring at photo albums full of her daughter's pictures, rejected the autopsy report outright. She also mentioned that Rintu, also an employee of Brac Bank, has been missing since the murder.

The grieving mother stopped sending her son Rownok Shihab Zim, a student of standard-1, to his English medium school at Kakrail, fearing an attack on him too from her brother.

"My Nowshin never even raised her voice and had no romantic relation. She didn't even have any cellphone," cried Shamsunnahar protesting the autopsy report that says Nowshin committed suicide.

"She didn't commit suicide, the autopsy report was not supposed to be like this," Nowshin's mother wailed.

"We can't find any reason for Nowshin to commit suicide. She was killed," said Sultan Faruque Monju, Nowshin's father.

Shamsunnahar asked if Nowshin had committed suicide then how the body was found lying face down on the floor with the entrance door of their flat locked from outside? The body was not hanging and the way the scarf was tied around Nowshin's neck in three to four knots suggests that she had been strangled.

According to Shamsunnahar, Rintu is an ill-tempered person suffering from an inferiority complex who is in the habit of dominating everyone in their family of four sisters and two brothers. Rintu used to often beat Shamsunnahar if she protested Rintu's activities.

Rintu even beat her with an iron rod once when she protested his amorous relationships with several women at a time. There have been disagreements between Shamsunnahar and Rintu over some family matters too.

Shamsunnahar at one point stopped recognising Rintu as her brother. Since then Rintu had been threatening to kill her children over the phone saying he would not let her live in peace.

Nowshin wanted to become a doctor one day and treat for free the destitute people of her village home in Pirojpur. She had a knack for writing and was involved in different cultural organisations since early childhood. She also received several awards for singing and dancing. She was a member of Udichi.

"I don't want to live anymore. All my dreams and hopes were vested in Nowshin. He who killed my daughter like this, I want a rope around his neck too," said Shamsunnahar.

Nowshin was found strangled to death on July 18. Her father filed a murder case with Ramna police station on July 20.