The mysterious death of a class VII student in the capital’s Jurain sent his fellow classmates and locals into a rampage yesterday, demanding punishment of the father for killing his 13-year-old son.
Several hundred students of Jurain High School and locals went into rampage, attacking and vandalising the residence of the father of Mohammad Shihab, 13, last evening at Pokar Bazar, Jurain under Kodomtoli police station.
The protests forced the father, Md Ripon Miah, 45, to bury his son, Mohammad Shihab, under police escort at the Jurain Graveyard last night, said witnesses and local people.
A tense situation was prevailing in the area among the students and locals over the incident.
The students and locals alleged that Ripon Miah had killed his son as the boy was the lone witnesses to the killing of his mother by his father three years ago.
His fellow classmates told this correspondent Shihab was not the kind of person who would commit suicide. He was meritorious and the 1st boy in his class, they said.
Talking to journalists at the Dhaka Medical College morgue, Md Russell, a classmate of deceased Shihab, claimed Shihab earlier had told them that his father had killed his mother while they were staying in Saudi Arabia three years ago and Shihab was the lone witness.
“Shihab was killed to silence the only witness to his mother’s killing before he could speak out,” he alleged.
Mazharul Islam, the officer-in-charge of Kodomtoli police station, said police provided escorts during the burial to avert any untoward incident.
OC Mazharul said police had recovered Shihab’s body on Monday night around 9pm from their residence after his father informed them that his son had “committed suicide as he did not wish him on his birthday.”
The OC, however, could not say how the boy had committed suicide. He confirmed that Shihab did not hang himself. “Perhaps he took sedatives or poisonous medicines,” he added.
“Although the body was buried after filing an unnatural death case, the cause of the death will be known after the autopsy report is received,” said the OC.
