'Punish criminals'
Teachers and students along with family members and neighbours of slain indigenous schoolgirl Kirtika Tripura joined a human chain at Dighinala upazila headquarters under the district yesterday demanding punishment of the criminals who killed the fourth grader after rape on Saturday.
Later, representatives of the programme, organised under the banner 'Teachers and students of primary education family' handed over a memorandum to the upazila nirbahi officer for sending it to the prime minister.
Meanwhile, Shishu Kishore Mela and Socialist Students Front arranged a protest rally and human chain on Court Road in Khagrachhari town demanding exemplary punishment of the perpetrators.
“We are very scared,” said Piyaree Tripura, a classmate of Kirtika Tripura.
“Kirtika's father died five years ago. We have no language to console the poor family. We demand punishment of the criminals,” said Sadhan Tripura, a neighbour.
“Kirtika was the youngest member of our family. I want justice,” said Umin Tripura, elder brother of the victim.
Surjashor Tripura, headmaster of Noimile Tripura Guchhagram Government Primary School, said, “From the condition of the body when it was recovered, it seems that the girl was tortured by more than one person. We cannot imagine how they could commit such brutality on a minor girl.”
Dighinala police on Monday arrested three people as suspected perpetrators of the incident. Police yesterday produced the arrestees, Shah Alam, 33, Nazrul Islam alias Bhandari, 32, and Monir Hossain, 38, before a Khagrachhari court and prayed for their seven-day remand. The court fixed Thursday for the hearing on the remand prayer sent the three arrestees to jail.
Kirtika Tripura, a Class IV student of Noimile Tripura Guchchhagram Government Primary School in Dighinala, was killed allegedly after rape in the area on Saturday.
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