HC starts hearing death reference in Rajon killing case

The High Court today started hearing the death reference and appeals in sensational 13-year-old boy Rajon killing case.

Deputy Attorney General Zahirul Haque Zahir is reading out the death reference before the court after HC bench of Justice Zahangir Hossain and Justice Md Zahangir Hossain began the hearing in the morning.

The death reference reached the HC in November 2015. 

A Sylhet court sentenced four people including prime accused Quamrul Islam to death for beating Sheikh Md Samiul Alam Rajon to death in July the same year.

On July 8, Rajon was beaten to death by a group of brutes in Kumargaon Bus Stand area of Sylhet Sadar upazila allegedly for trying to steal a rickshaw van.

Tied to a pole, he screamed for help, cried for water and begged for his life. But they laughed and jeered at him till the boy went silent, forever. One of them even filmed the horrendous incident and shared it on Facebook.

The 28-minute video footage went viral and shows Quamrul, in a black T-shirt and lungi, hitting the boy with a stick in the feet, joints of legs, shoulders and in the head.

The sickening torture video shook the nation to its core and stirred outcries in the social network and the mainstream media.