Father wants speedy trial of Imran's killers

Father of slain private university student Asif Imran yesterday demanded that his son's killers be tried under a speedy trial tribunal.

He also sought the prime minister's intervention as, what he said, the killers are influential, issuing repeated threats to the family members. 

Imran, a first-year student of American International University of Bangladesh (AIUB), was traceless since he came out of his Uttara house with his friends on October 7, 2015.

Amid desperate efforts to find him, police on November 15 last year collected DNA samples of his parents, which matched with those of an unknown body recovered from the Buriganga river on October 9, 2015, and buried unclaimed, proving that it was Imran. “On getting the DNA test results, we lost all hope. We just want the highest punishment for my son's killers,” Imran's father Lutfar Rahman told reporters at a press conference at Crime Reporters' Association in the capital. During the incident, Imran's parents were in Saudi Arabia for Hajj.

On return, Lutfar, a former manager at Ashuganj Power Station, filed an abduction case with Uttara Paschim Police Station on November 1, 2015 against Imran's friend Golam Mostafa Adar, Adar's father Golam Mostafa Kalu, Alamgir and his nephew Reazul Islam Pritom.

Apart from those four, police earlier arrested five others. Six including Adar, Kalu and Alamgir are now on bail.

At the press conference, Lutfar alleged that the accused abducted and killed his son in a planned way for ransom.

He demanded that the investigator appeal to the court again seeking remand for the accused to unearth how his son was killed.