Two more arrested in Companyganj
Detective Branch (DB) of police on Sunday night arrested two more people in connection with the tragic death of hapless boy Shamsuddin Milon in Companyganj upazila on July 27.
Police allegedly let a mob beat the 17-year-old boy to death after he was held on suspicion of being a robber.
Billal Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of DB police said, acting on a tip-off, a DB team with the help of Companyganj police arrested Sajib and Babul Chowdhury from Teker Bazar area of Basurhat on Sunday night. They will be quizzed at the district head office of DB police, he said.
Both the arrestees were detected from a video footage captured by a mobile phone during the incident, added the OC.
Earlier, in separate drives police arrested Jafar Iqbal, Harunur Rashid, Shah Alam, Abdul Khaleq and Abul Khair from different villages under Charkakra union of the upazila.
On July 27, a police team led by sub-inspector Akramuddin Sheikh picked up Milon on his van suspecting him as a robber.
When the van reached Teker Bazar, curious locals asked police about his offence. Without giving a second thought, police told them that the boy committed robbery although there was no case filed against him with any police station.
Hearing this, the enraged locals all of a sudden pulled down the boy from van and beat him dead while police silently watched the senseless act.
On August 3, Milon's mother Kohinoor Begum filed a petition case with the Judicial Magistrate's Court alleging that villagers beat her innocent son to death in the presence of police suspecting him as a robber. The case was later sent to DB police.
Meanwhile, the businessmen of Tekerhat Bazar pulled their shutters down and barricaded Basurhat-Chaprashirhat road from 8:00am to 11:00am yesterday protesting the arrest of Sajib and Babul.
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