Father's murder leaves him disturbed
“Leave me, just let me leave, I will kill those who killed my father,” Shariful Islam occasionally breaks his silence when he is asked anything.
The 25-year-old youth at Garabaria village in Sadar upazila of Chuadanga lost mental balance after witnessing the brutal murder of his father on January 27.
Shariful, father of a four-year-old daughter, worked as a porter at a wheat wholesale market in Chuadanga town.
Recently, his father Ashraful Islam, a van puller, had a land dispute with influential neighbour Ekraul Haq alias Ikra.
On January 27, Ikra with 10/12 accomplices carrying lethal weapons attacked Ashraful at his house and killed him by piercing with a crowbar.
“Shariful along with other family members witnessed the gruesome incident. We prevented him from going forward to save his father lest he is killed too,” Shariful's mother Sholekha Begum said over phone.
Afterwards, Shariful stopped talking and going out of home, even refrained from eating.
On January 29, Shariful suddenly went missing.
After a search, family members and villagers found him beside his father's grave where he was screaming and trying to set fire on the grave.
After Shariful was taken back home, he started behaving abnormally.
“With a crowbar, Shariful tried to run towards the house of his father's killers, shouting that he would kill them,” said Shariful's wife Rahela Khatun when talked over phone.
Since then, Shariful has been kept in chains.
“Shariful got serious mental disturbance due to the shock of witnessing his father's murder. There is very little chance of his getting cured soon,”
said Dr Sajal Ahmed, a psychiatrist of Chuadanga Sadar Hospital, after conducting a therapy session on Shariful.
A murder case was filed against four people including Ekraul, his wife Iti Khatun, son Swapnil Haq Sawpna and accomplice Golam Rasul with Chuadanga Sadar Police Station on January 31 and all went into hiding.
On February 7, Iti and Sawpna got interim bail from a High Court bench. The court directed them to surrender to the lower court within seven weeks.
On February 15, Ikra and Rasul surrendered to the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Chuadanga and the court granted three days' remand for them, following a prayer by police, said Chuadanga Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge Abdul Khaleq, also investigation officer of the case.
During interrogation, the duo admitted to the murder and charge sheet will be submitted soon, he said.
On February 18, locals submitted a memorandum signed by around 300 people to the deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police in Chuadanga, demanding exemplary punishment of the killers.
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