Youth ‘beaten to death at rehab’
A boy was beaten to death allegedly by staffers of a drug rehabilitation centre in Jashore.
The victim was identified as Mahfuzur Rahman, 20, from Chuadanga.
His father Moniruzzaman said Mahfuz had gotten addicted to some drugs, and so, on April 26, they admitted him to the rehabilitation centre -- "Madokasokti Niramoy O Punorbashon Kendra" -- in Jashore's Rail Road.
"On Saturday [May 22] evening, we got information that the rehabilitation centre's staffers have beaten my son to death and sent the body to Jashore General Hospital as an 'unidentified' body...We rushed to the hospital and found my son's body in the morgue."
Contacted, the hospital's emergency doctor Tanmoy Biswas said the body was brought from the rehabilitation centre. But those who brought it fled the hospital quickly without registering any of their names or addresses.
Sankar Biswas, sub-inspector of Jashore Kotwali Police Station, said injury marks were found on different parts of the body.
Tajul Islam, the police station's officer-in-charge, said police have scrutinised the rehabilitation centre's CCTV footage and found that Mahfuz was beaten to death.
Police have detained 14 staffers, including the centre's directors, for interrogation. However, the process of filing a case is still ongoing, the OC added.
Comments