Kamrul Islam, the prime accused in teenager Rajon murder case who was held in Saudi Arabia, will be brought back home tomorrow.
A Foreign Ministry statement yesterday said that all necessary procedures had been completed to repatriate Kamrul in collaboration with Home Ministry, Police Headquarters and the Bangladesh mission in Saudi Arabia.
Three police officials – Police Headquarters’ Additional Superintendent Mahabubul Karim, Sylhet Metropolitan Police’s Additional Commissioner Mohammad Rahmat Ullah and Assistant Commissioner AFF Nezam Uddin – reached Riyadh yesterday to bring back Kamrul.
Even though the two countries have no extradition treaty, the Saudi government is sending immigrant Kamrul at the request of the Bangladesh government.
Kamrul fled the country on July 10, two days after brutally killing the 13-year-old boy at a workshop in Sylhet’s Kumargaon along with several others. But he was caught by some expatriate Bangladeshis and handed over to Saudi police on July 13.
Thirteen people were made accused in the case. Of them, two are on the run.
So far, 25 out of 38 prosecution witnesses testified in the case.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Judge Md Akbar Hossain Mridha yesterday recorded the deposition of four more witnesses including the owner of a workshop where Rajon had been tortured to death.
They are police constables Zakir Ahmed and Monir Ahmed, microbus driver Abdul Mannan and workshop owner Sudip Kopali.
Vegetable vendor Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon was tortured to death by the accused on July 8. A 28-minute video, recorded on a mobile phone camera by one of the accused and later uploaded to social media platforms, showed the victim tied to a pole in front of a workshop.
