The New Nation - Internet Edition

Our Correspondent, Barisal

Police recovered a violated dead body of a young female passenger from the cabin of M V Rajhangsa-7 plying on Dhaka Mehendiganj route and arrested one cabin boy of the launch in this connection.

The dead body was sent to Barisal SBMCH morgue for autopsy on Saturday.

Police and hospital sources said that one male passenger named Kabir Hossain boarded on the cabin-11 of the launch from Dhaka on Thursday evening with one young female passenger identifying themselves as couple.

The launch after leaving Lalkharabad station of Mehendiganj, cabin attendant found the cabin as locked from outside and later after peeping through window seen the lying body of the female passenger on the bed. Failing to awaken her launch staffs breaking the lock found the violated dead body of the female passenger, a cloth-bag, condom packet, sex-instigating tablet in the cabin.

Md. Jahangir Hossain, master of the launch, lodged a case with Mehendiganj police station after reaching final destination.