Police have detained a person for his alleged involvement with the incident of torturing a 13-year-old boy to death in Sylhet and later uploading a video of the beating to the internet.
Ismail Hossain Ablus, 30, was detained from Kamakazi area under the sadar upazila early Monday. He is the cousin of one of the killers, Muhit Alam, who was caught red-handed while dumping the body of the teenager.
Akhtar Hossain, OC of Jalalabad police station, confirmed the Dhaka Tribune about the detention.
Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajan was tortured to death by a group of persons Kumargaon on the outskirts of Sylhet city around 7:30am on June 8.
The 28-minute video, recorded on a mobile phone camera, shows the victim, Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajan, tied to a pole in front of a workshop in the still-closed Sultan Ali Market, beside the Dhaka-Sunamganj road. From the video, it seemed there were five to six men who took part in the barbaric torture.
After Rajan succumbed to his injuries, one of the killers, Muhit Alam, 32, tried to dump his body but was caught red-handed by locals around 11:30am.
Informed about the suspect, police went to the spot and took Muhit into custody and recovered Rajan’s body from a microbus. The body was identified by Rajan’s family at the police station on Wednesday night.
The elder of two brothers, Rajan was from Bade Ali village in Kandigaon union under Sylhet Sadar upazila, near Kumargaon.
His father Sheikh Azizur Rahman is a microbus driver. Rajan had studied up to Class VI before he dropped out of school and started selling vegetables to support his family, his father told the Dhaka Tribune.
On the day of the incident, Rajan left home early in the morning to sell vegetables as his father was out on a trip, said Rajan’s mother Lubna Akhtar.
As he did not return home all day, Lubna went to the police station that night to file a general diary. She was told there about a boy’s body found earlier in the day. Taking a look at the body, Lubna recognised it as her son’s.
A murder case was filed in this regard by Jalalabad police, in which Rajan’s father later became a plaintiff. Muhit was listed as the prime accused in the case, while his brother Kamrul Islam, 24, their accomplice Ali Haider, 34, and guard Moyna Miah, 45, were charged with murder as well.
Police submitted a petition to place Muhit in remand for seven days before the Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court 2. The hearing will take place Monday.