A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against 10 people including Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman and Deputy Editor Anisul Hoque over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College (DRMC) student Nayeemul Abrar.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Kaisarul Islam passed the order around 3pm yesterday.
Earlier, Mohammadpur police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdul Alim, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted a probe report before the court.
The eight others accused are: Kabir Bakul, Shuvashish Pramanik, Mahitul Alam, Shah Paran Tushar, Jasim Uddin, Mosharraf Hossain, Sujan and Kamrul Hawlader.
The court took the report into cognizance and issued a warrant for arrest against them, Assistant Bench Clerk Md Sayem confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
On November 1, Nayeemul Abrar, a grade nine non-residential student of DRMC, was electrocuted by a power generator on the school premises, during a program organized by Kishor Alo, a supplement of Prothom Alo for young readers.
Anisul Hoque is the editor of Kishor Alo.
Nayeemul's father Md Mojibur Rahman later filed a case with the court of Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Haque, alleging the organizers had negligence for the death of his son.
He also alleged that the organizers took Nayeemul to Universal Medical College Hospital instead of the nearby Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.
He accused Kishore Alo and the school authorities of concealing the information of Nayeemul's death and continuing the program despite the tragic incident.
Following a court order, Nayeemul's body was exhumed from his family graveyard at Dhanyapur village in Noakhali’s Sonaimuri upazila an autopsy on November 9.
