Body formed to investigate Rakib murder

Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has formed a three-member probe body to investigate the brutal killing of 12-year-old boy Rakib in the south-western city on Monday. The probe body was formed on Wednesday with Additional Police Commissioner Mahbubul Hakim as its chief. The other members are Assistant Police Commissioner Maniruzzaman Mithu and Assistant Police Commissioner Humayun Kabir. Meanwhile, 12 organisations, including human rights groups, formed a human chain in the divisional city on Wednesday morning protesting the murder of Rakib, who used to work at a motorcycle garage (workshop) in Tutpara Central Road. He was tortured to death allegedly by his employers over quitting his job on Monday evening, only twenty six days into the murder of Rajon in brutal torture in north-eastern city of Sylhet. Police and family members said Rakib used to work as a worker at ‘Sharif Motors’ – motorcycle repairing shop near Graveyeard at central Road. Recently he quit the job and joined another motor workshop in the area which infuriated Sharif Mia, the owner of Sharif Motors. Sharif and his brother Mintu Mia caught Rakib on his way to his new workplace and dragged him to the garage in the evening. The two men stripped him naked and pressed the hose pipe of an air compressor machine to the backside of the minor boy and tried to pump air into his body. At one stage, Rakib’s belly was inflated with air and he started vomiting. Later, Sharif and Mintu took Rakib to a local clinic around 10:30 and tried to flee away from the scene. But locals caught the two torturers and handed them over to the local police station. In the meantime, the authorities of the local clinic denied to admit Rakib for treatment. Later, Rakib was taken to Khulna Medical College Hospital by his father. As his condition deteriorated, Rakib was being shifted Dhaka and he succumbed to his injuries on the way. Alam Haldar, father of the deceased, filed a case with Khulna Sadar Police Station on Tuesday, according to a news agency.
- mbz