2 AL men held as youth tortured on 'theft charge'
Police in a drive early yesterday detained two local Awami League (AL) men in connection with a case for torturing a youth, hanging him upside down from a tree, on theft charge in Harinakundo upazila of the district on December 28.
The arrestees are Shahinur Rahman, former general secretary of Taherhuda union unit AL, and his fellow party activist Babul Kazi, son of Aktar Kazi.
Police quoted the villagers as saying that a television set was stolen from the AL election office at Sreepur Bazar under Taherhuda union on the night of December 27.
The following morning, some local AL men, on suspicion, forcibly picked up Rana Hossain, 27, son of Omar Ali of Sreepur village, while he was working at a cropland at around 10:00am.
They later took Rana to Sreepur Bazar, hung him upside down from a tree and started beating him mercilessly until he fainted.
Villagers later rescued critically injured Rana from the spot and admitted him to Harinakundo Upazila Health Complex.
The brutal incident came to light when a video footage of the torture, videoed by some unknown witnesses, went viral on the internet on Friday morning.
Police filed a case with Harinakundo Police Station accusing four people the same night and also arrested them early yesterday, Sub-Inspector Golam Sarwar, also the investigation officer, said.
The arrestees were produced before a Jhenidah court yesterday that sent them to jail, he added.
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