UNB, Sylhet :A court here on Tuesday indicted 13 people in a case filed over the gruesome murder of teenage boy Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon in Kumargaon area of the city on July 8.Sylhet Metropolitan and Session Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha framed the charges and fixed October 1 for the next hearing.On September 7, the case was transferred to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court from the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court-1. On August 16, police submitted achargesheet against 13 people in connection with the murder. The chargesheeted accused are Quamrul Islam, Muhit Alam, 32, Shamim Alam, 20, Pavel Islam, 18, Ali Haider alias Ali, 34, Moyna Mia, 45, Nur Ahmed alias Nuru Mia, 20, Dulal Ahmed, 30, Ayaz Ali, 45, Taz Uddin Badal, 28, Firoz Mia, 50, Asmat Ali, 42, and Ruhul Amin, 25.The three fugitive accused are Quamrul Islam, his brother Shamim Ahmed and Pavel. Meanwhile, Judge Shahedul Karim passed an order asking the authorities concerned to publish advertisements in daily newspapers showing the three accused as fugitives.On July 8, 13-year-old boy Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, son of Sheikh Azizur Rahman of Badeali village in Sadar upazila, was brutally tortured to death over a theft at Sundar Ali Market in Kumargaon area of the city.The killers themselves took the video footage of the incident, which went viral on social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site Youtube which triggered a widespread outcry.
