Dhaka, April 6 -- A Cumilla court on Monday ordered the authorities concerned to conduct a cross-match of DNA profiles of three former army personnel with those earlier collected from the clothing of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a Cumilla Govt Victoria College student who was killed in 2016.

Cumilla Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Mominul Haque passed the order after Inspector Tariqul Islam of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), also the investigating officer of the case filed over the murder, appeared before the court and sought permission to carry out the DNA cross-matching, UNB reports.

According to the IO, DNA profiles had previously been extracted from Tonu's personal clothing soon after the incident. However, those samples were never mat...