Arrest culprits immediately
Rights organisation Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday called for an immediate arrest of all persons responsible for the recent attack on the Munda community in Satkhira, in which Narendranath Munda died.
All the accused of the case filed over the killing of Narendranath must be arrested quickly to ensure justice, said ASK in a statement yesterday.
A team of the rights body visited the Munda village in Satkhira's Shyamnagar recently.
Narendranath succumbed to his injuries a day after 200-250 people attacked Dhumghat Munda village inhabited by 22 Munda families on August 19.
The statement said the attack was led by Rashedul Islam and Ebadul Islam to take possession of 30 bighas of land owned by the ethnic minority community.
On the day of the incident, the attackers confined all the Munda families to their houses at gunpoint and destroyed their crops, according to the findings of the ASK delegation, led by its executive director Nur Khan Liton.
As Narendranath and his three daughters-in-law tried to resist, the attackers beat and hacked them.
A case was filed with Shyamnagar Police Station against 30 named persons, including Rashedul and Ebadul, and 160-170 unnamed persons.
However, only four named and one unnamed accused have so far been arrested. Masterminds Rashidul and Ebadul are still out of the law enforcement's reach, the statement read.
ASK also demanded the arrest of those involved in the torture of Munda women, compensation for the crops destroyed, setting up of a police camp in the Munda village to ensure safety and appropriate measures by the district administration to stop land grabbers.
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