2-yr into Biswajit killing, family demands justice

The family members of Shankharibazar's tailoring shop owner Biswajit Das, who was killed in Dhaka city two years ago, have demanded that the fugitive convicts in the murder case be hunted down. ‘Two years have elapsed since my son was murdered. All of the convicts are yet to be arrested. We don’t know whether they’ll be traced at all,’ says Ananta Das, father of Biswajit, breaking down in tears. Talking to this correspondent, at his house in Mashura village under Naria Upazila in Shariatpur district, Ananta also said they have been passing their days in constant panic as they fear the absconding convicts might harm his family anytime. Biswajit’s mother Kalpana Das demanded immediate execution of the court verdict. When contacted, officer-in-charge of Naria Police Station Sheikh Kabirul Islam said there is nothing for the family to be panicked as he claimed police are regularly looking after it. On December 18 last year, a tribunal in Dhaka condemned 8 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the ruling party’s student wing, to death and sentenced 13 other BCL men to life imprisonment in the sensational Biswajit murder case. All the convicts were activists of Jagannath University unit of BCL. Of them, three condemned convicts and 12 lifers are absconding. The accused chopped tortured Biswajit to death in broad day light near Victoria Park in Old Dhaka during the then opposition’s nationwide hartal on December 9, 2012, according to a news agency.