Delay in probe reflects state’s indifference: speakers
Delay in police investigation into the murder of Narayanganj teenager Tanwir Muhammad Taqi reflected the state’s indifference in providing justice in some incidents, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.
“Santrash Nirmul Taqi Mancha“ and committee for “National Taqi Drawing and Essay Competition” jointly arranged the discussion at Bangladesh National Museum, ahead of distributing crests and certificates among this year’s winners of the competition.
Taqi, who would have turned 24 this year, was kidnapped on way to a local library from his residence in Narayanganj on March 6, 2013. Police recovered his body floating in the river Shitalakhya two days later.
Till date, the perpetrators are yet to be punished as investigators did not submit charge-sheet before court over the murder case, filed by Taqi’s family.
Addressing the discussion, National Professor Anisuzzaman said since Taqi’s murder, one or two rallies and discussions were held each year demanding justice.
However, it is a matter of great sorrow that the demand has not been fulfilled, he said.
“A brilliant boy like Taqi was murdered gruesomely and we can’t do anything to ensure justice for him. Such inability, such incompetency resonates harshly,” he added.
“We can see Taqi as a symbol,” said noted academic Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury, adding that his murder brought to the fore the potentiality in adolescence and also the insecurity in which the country’s adolescents are living.
Besides demanding justice for Taqi, people have to be vocal for a change in existing state mechanism to speed up the trial process, he further said.
Pointing to the speedy disposal of the case over Feni’s Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder recently, Prof Choudhury said such justice has not been served in Taqi murder, due to “interference”.
Taqi’s father Rafiur Rabbi said in recent years, speedy trial took place in some sensational cases, with some of those being completed in six months.
However, some incidents like the murders of Taqi or Sagar-Runi did not see such result because the country’s criminal justice system is “at mercy” of those who run the country, he alleged.
Those who “control” criminal justice system and enforcement of law have to create an example of righteousness to earn people’s trust, said Prof Syed Manzoorul Islam.
People of Narayanganj consider the city a “prison” due to activities of its one or two families, said Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy, without mentioning any name.
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