Arrest, trial of Bishwajit's killers demanded

Speakers at a rally yesterday urged the prime minister to ensure immediate arrest of the murderers of Bishwajit Das and their trial under the speedy trial act.
The nation believes the statement the home minister made yesterday that eleven of the killers have been arrested. The government should immediately produce the arrestees before a court to clear any confusion in this regard, they said.
The rally was organised by Bangladesh Chhatra Jubo Oikya Parishad in the capital's Central Shaheed Minar premises.
On December 9, some 10 to 12 activists of pro-Awami League student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) beat and hacked Bishwajit, a tailor, to death during a countrywide road blockade enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance.
The government should be ashamed for not being able to make the arrests before the High Court came up with the directive. Law enforcers could have at least arrested the killers identified in the media, said a leader of the parishad, Ashim Sarkar.
Two ministers and the BCL president and secretary have already denied the killers' affiliation with BCL. It is true that many enemies have infiltrated BCL and carried out subversive activities, claimed the parishad's city unit President Brojo Gopal Debnath.
“We were first informed that killers appeared from a BCL procession. Later detectives confirmed that there was no BCL procession there,” said Awami Swechchasebak League General Secretary Pankaj Debnath.