The killers of teenager Himadri Majumder Himu should meet their fate soon, says his mother after five were sentenced to death for the murder. Gopa Majumder was not with her husband and her brother when the verdict was delivered at a Chittagong court on Sunday. She stayed home with relatives, crying in front of her son’s photo.
“As a mother, I am content with the verdict. The killers got death which is what we wanted,” she told bdnews24.com. The five convicted of the murder are Junaid Ahmed Riad, his father Shah Selim Tipu, Shahadat Hossain Saju, Mahbub Ali Danny and Jahidur Rahman Shaon.
Riad has been absconding since the start of the trial and Shaon jumped bail.
Himu, a student of Summerfield School and College, had just passed A-Levels and was an activist for Shikhor, a local group against drug abuse. On April 27, 2012, he was in front of his school when he was picked up and taken to the roof of Riad’s house in city’s Panchlaish.
The 18-year-old was held captive on the roof of the house owned by Riad’s businessman father.
He was badly beaten before the killers set loose a pack of Doberman dogs after him and pushed him off the roof. After 26 days, he died from his wounds in Dhaka.
