A Sylhet court has placed one person on a five-day remand in a case filed for torturing a 13-year-old boy to death in Sylhet and later uploading a video of the beating to the internet.
The court of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate 2 Farhana Yesmin passed the order on Monday morning after the police produced one of the tormentors Muhit Alam before it with a seven-day remand plea.
Muhit was detained on Wednesday morning while trying to dump the body of the ill-fated teenager, Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajan.
On the other hand, police have detained Muhit's cousin for his alleged involvement with the incident.
Ismail Hossain Abullus, 30, was detained from Kamakazi area under the sadar upazila early Monday.
Akhtar Hossain, OC of Jalalabad police station, confirmed the Dhaka Tribune about the detention.
Rajan was tortured to death by a group of persons at Kumargaon on the outskirts of Sylhet city around 7:30am Wednesday.
A 28-minute video, recorded on a mobile phone camera, shows the victim 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.
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.
