Limon won't withdraw case against Rab men

College student Limon Hossain and his family have said that they will not withdraw the case his mother Henoara Begum has filed against Rab personnel for shooting him, leading to the amputation of one of his legs and disruption in studies.
A week after Ashok Kumar Biswas, deputy commissioner of Jhalakathi, advised Limon to apply for clemency in the two cases Rab filed against him and in return asked him to withdraw his mother's case, Limon said yesterday that a person identifying himself as a Rab member called his mother on Wednesday evening to know of their reaction to the proposal.
Limon and his mother were then at their rented house in Kaukhali upazila town.
“The person contacted my mother over mobile phone. Without disclosing his name and rank, the caller inquired about our condition and who was paying our house rent. Then he asked what we had decided about the proposal by the Jhalakathi deputy commissioner,” Limon told The Daily Star.
“We told him that the matter would be decided on the basis of the advice of Ain O Salish Kendra and Manabadhikar Commission [National Human Rights Commission],” Limon added.
The teenager, who successfully passed the first year HSC examination recently, and his mother told this correspondent that they were not going to withdraw the case against Rab until they got justice.
The rights body ASK is providing Limon with legal assistance, while the NHR commission Chairman Mizanur Rahman has been involved in the Limon issue since he was shot on March 23 last year.
Rab on the same day charged Limon with possessing firearms in one case and with obstructing law enforcers from conducting their duties in another. The cases were filed hours after Limon was shot by Rab members during a raid near his home in Chhaturia village of Rajapur upazila in Jhalakathi while he was fetching cattle home.
The elite force claims Limon to be a member of a local crime ring “led by Mizan and Morshed”.
Limon's mother filed the case against six Rab personnel with Rajapur police on April 26, 2011, only after a Jhalakathi court directed the police to register the case. After the police recently submitted a final report in the case clearing all the Rab personnel, Henoara Begum filed an objection plea against it.
“To ensure the rights of people, Ain O Salish Kendra will always be there beside Limon,” said Nur Khan, acting executive director of ASK.
“The proposal the deputy commissioner made puts an immense mental pressure on Limon and can only be called immoral as it clearly shows that Limon is being denied the right to justice,” he added.
The Jhalakathi DC on October 24 told Limon and his mother that he would recommend that the home ministry on humanitarian grounds consider withdrawing the cases Rab has filed against Limon if Henoara Begum withdraws her case.
However, DC Ashok yesterday said after visiting and talking with Limon and his mother at the Kaukhali UNO office, that he had not contacted Limon's family. Neither had he been informed of anything further.