Sunday, April 2, 2017


An autopsy report on April 1, 2017 confirmed that Raudha Athif, the Maldivian medical student and model committed suicide by hanging herself. Professor Mansur Rahman of Barind Medical College, the chief of the three-member medical board performed the autopsy on March 31, 2017. As per his report there were neither strangulation marks on her neck nor any injury marks on her body.

Raudha Athif

The board yesterday submitted its report to Ataur Rahman, sub-inspector of Shah Makhdum Police Station, and also the investigation officer of the unnatural death case filed on March 29, 2017.

The family members of the deceased, however, rejected the report and considering seeking a second autopsy.

Raudha, a second-year student of Islami Bank Medical College. She was also a model and cover girl for Vogue India in October 2016. On March 29 police recovered her body from the dormitory of Islami Bank Medical College in Rajshahi. While visiting the place of occurrence the Police found the body hanging from a ceiling fan with a long scarf in her dorm room.

On the night of her death, students of the dormitory saw Raudha going out of the hostel around 11:00pm. She went to see a doctor at the college's hospital as she was vomiting and felt sick. One girl from the hostel accompanied her to the hospital and another girl saw her return around 11:30pm.

Abdul Aziz Riyad, secretary of the medical college, said they were not officially aware of Raudha going outside around 11:00pm. They learned that she went outside around 9:00pm as she was having stomach pains.

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