Parents seek capital punishment for killers of toddler Araf

CHATTOGRAM, Mar 29 (bdnews24.com): Two-year old Abdur Rahman Araf was playing in the open parking space in front of his home when he was coaxed to the roof of his building, thrown inside the water tank and killed. The motive was to frame the owner of the building he lived in with his parents.
The plan failed and police eventually arrested three suspects over the murder.
A year and nine months since the gruesome killing in Chattogram's Bakalia, Araf's parents are still in tears. The trial has proceeded quickly and they are looking forward to seeing the killers receive the capital punishment.
Chattogram Additional Metropolitan Session Judge Md Jasim Uddin has scheduled the verdict for March 30.
Araf was the only child of Abdul Qayum and Farhana Islam. They do not want any other parents to suffer the same pain of losing their children.
"We want to see the killers hanged so that no other parents experience this emptiness."