In a joint statement, 26 noted personalities have sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's directives and intervention to start the Tanwir Muhammad Taqi murder case trial.
The statement was issued on Sunday, confirmed Halim Azad, Member Secretary of the Santrash Nirmul Taqi Mancha.
Professor emeritus of Dhaka University (DU), Serajul Islam Chowdhury, language veteran and journalist Kamal Lohani, eminent lawyer Dr Shahdeen Malik, economist and professor, Anu Muhammad, columnist Syed Abul Maksud, and cultural personality Sanjida Khatun, were among the eminent citizens.
The charge sheet has not been submitted yet, despite seven years having passed since Narayanganj teenage boy Tanwir Muhammad Taqi was murdered on March 6, 2013.
Criminals are being encouraged and the independent judiciary is coming into question as the trial of the murder case has not begun yet, the statement reads.
Seventeen year old Tanwir Muhammad Taqi was found dead in the Shitalakkhya River on the morning of March 8, two days after he went missing on March 6, 2013.
Soon after, Taqi's father Rafiur Rabbi filed a murder case with the Narayanganj Kotwali police station.
