Police form team to probe brutal murder of boy

Police have formed a special team to find and arrest those who brutally tortured an 11-year-old boy to death in Sylhet's Kumargaon. Sylhet Metropolitan Police's (SMP) Additional Deputy Commissioner Rahmat Ullah will head the four-member committee formed on Sunday night. Rahmat Ullah told bdnews24.com that his team was already on the job. SMP Commissioner Qamrul Ahsan visited the crime scene around 9:30pm where Samiul Alam Rajan was murdered. He spoke with the locals in Kumargaon Bus Stand area and promised to bring the killers to justice. He pledged legal support to the boy's family. Residents of Badeali village, where Rajan's family lives, demonstrated in front of the boy's house and gave police a 12-hour ultimatum to catch all the killers. Around 11pm Sunday, speakers and local elders at a protest rally there alleged police were not active even after Rajan was tortured to death in broad daylight. Jalalabad Police Station OC (Investigation) Akter Hossain, who is on the murder case, told the people there that police were doing everything they could to arrest the murderers. Rajan was beaten to death on July 8 morning on accusations of stealing a rickshaw van at Kumargaon of Sylhet Sadar Upazila. One of the torturers had filmed the shocking footage and released it on a social networking site. The 28-minute video clip created a firestorm on the social media as it went viral on the internet. Locals had caught one Muhith Alam, 22, while he was taking the body to dump in a microbus and handed him over to police the same day. Jalalabad police later filed a case against four, including Alam, over the murder. The other accused are Alam’s brother Kamrul Islam, 24, Ali Haider, 34 and Moyna Mia, 45. Police also sought seven days from a Sylhet court to grill Alam. The hearing is scheduled for today (Monday), according to bdnews24.com.