UNB, Sylhet :
A court here on Monday asked the authorities concerned to produce three fugitives accused in the Rajon murder case before the court within seven days.
The three fugitive accused are – Quamrul Islam, his brother Shamim Ahmed and Pavel. Judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate-1 Shahedul Karim passed the order asking the authorities concerned to publish advertisements in daily newspapers showing the three accused as fugitives.
The court also fixed September 7 for the next hearing, said Shawkat Chowdhury, a lawyer appointed by Rajon’s father Azizur Rahman. On August 16, Suranjit Talukdar, inspector of DB police and investigation officer of the case, submitted a chargehseet against 13 people in connection with the murder case.
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.
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. The video clip went viral on social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site Youtube which triggered a widespread outcry.
Twelve people have been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder and they reportedly made their ‘confessional’ statements separately to their involvement in the incident of Rajon murder. Another accused, Quamrul Islam, 24, brother of main accused Muhit Alam, fled to Saudi Arabia after the incident where he was held by local Bangladeshis and then handed over to Jeddah police.
