College student murder: Mob snatches accused from cops, beats him to death

An angry mob yesterday snatched away an arrestee, accused in connection with abduction and murder of a college student, from a police van and beat him to death.

The deceased, Umi Ching Marma, was arrested from Rangamati in connection with abduction and murder of a college student, said Abdullah Al Haroon, officer-in-charge of Raozan Police Station.

Police also recovered the dismembered body of Shibli Sadiq Hriday, 20, from a remote hilly area in Kaokhali upazila of Rangamati, where he was buried, 13 days after he was abducted from Raozan upazila of Chattogram.

Shibli was a student of Kadalpur School and College in Raozan. He also worked at a chicken farm, from where kidnappers abducted him on August 28, demanding a ransom of Tk 15 lakh.

"Umi Ching Marma was arrested on Sunday night in this connection and later confessed to Shibli's murder and burial during overnight interrogation," said the OC.

When police were returning with Shibli's body and the arrested accused to Raozan Police Station around 11:00am yesterday, agitated locals in Kadalpur snatched Umi Ching from the police van and beat him up, leaving him critically injured, the OC also said.

"Umi Ching was later taken to the upazila health complex, where he was declared dead," said OC Haroon.

The bodies of Shibli and Umi Ching have been kept at Chattogram Medical College morgue.

Legal steps in this connection was underway, the OC added.