Joynal Abedin Khan :The incidents of sensational murders, including the bloggers, rights group activists, teachers and professionals, have increased across the country in the last few years.As a result, a sense of insecurity, triggered by miscreants’ attack on the one hand and police access on the other, has been created among the people. According to intelligence sources, at least 150 gruesome murders have taken place in the country in last several years by the militants and unknown miscreants. Since 2013, more than 29 secular activists, publishers, minorities and advocates of free thinking have been killed in grisly attacks, which are believed to be works of the militants, they said. Besides, Sagor-Runi murder, Narayanganj seven-murder, Tawki murder, killing in Hoseini Dalan attacks, Dinajpur temple attack, Italian and Japanese nationals killing, city police killing, Tanu murder, Kalabagan murder, RU professors killing, have drawn the concentration of the domestic and world media, they said. After committing such incidents, at least two probe bodies were formed by cop personnel to investigate the murder incidents in the shake of justice. The members of law enforcing agencies, including Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Detective Branch (DB) of Police, and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), took the responsibilities to probe the incidents. Meanwhile, a good number of murder cases have been transferred to the CID and the DB from the general police stations. The police have arrested many suspect miscreants regarding the incidents, but they have failed to arrest the killers from spots. Even they could not unearth the grounds behind such gruesome murders after passing long times. The family members of the victims are still waiting for the justice. Of them, some are also passing insecure lives in fear of further attack on them by miscreants or militants. Also they are worried for justice after delaying of declaration of verdict based on charge sheets. In this back drop, the DB has been given the cases over the recent murders of gay-rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his theatre activist friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy after police’s failure. But the CID also failed to fine the clue of killings, said DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Maaruf Hossain Sarder. Assailants also hacked to death Rajshahi University English Department Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee in last week of April. The investigators could not trace the motive behind the killing, said Sushanta Chandra Roy, Assistant Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police. Also, Nazimuddin Samad, who was critical of Islam on facebook writings and a law student at Jagannath University, was hacked and shot to death near the university on his way home after attending evening classes on April 6.But the police could not arrest anybody in this connection even after passing almost one month of the killing. On the other hand, the Investigation Officer of Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder and CID Inspector Gazi Ibrahim said that he is busy collecting information. The investigation into the case was earlier assigned to the local police station and then the DB of police. CID Assistant Superintendent in Comilla Mozammel Haque said they have to investigate the matter carefully and it needs some more times to conclude the probe. Police also could not unearth the killers of the 66-year old Japanese national Hosi Koniyo, who was killed by miscreants in Rangpur in October last year, while the law enforcers also failed to trace the motive of killing of Italian national Tavella Cesare in the city’s Gulshan diplomatic zone on September 27 in 2015.Narayanganj City Corporation Councillor Nazrul Islam, advocate Chandan Sarkar and five others were abducted on April 27, 2014 from Lamaparha at the Dhaka-Narayanganj link road. Their bodies were found in a local river after three days of abduction. The investigators still could not fine the clue of the sensational murder.Meanwhile, two years into the sensational murder of Tanvir Mohammad Tawki, the A-level student and son of cultural activist Rafiur Rabbi, law enforcers have yet to submit the charge sheet. The RAB is investigation the murder, but could not make any tangible progress in their probe either.Tawki was killed at the office of Azmeri in College Road area of the city on March 6, 2013, and his body was put in a sack and dumped in the Shitalakkhya river at Charargope. The body was found on the bank of the Shitalakkhya on March 8 in 2013.In the meantime, though about four years have already been elapsed, the investigation into the gruesome murder of journalist couple Sagar-Runi could not see the light of the day. The investigation officer of the case has approached the court to extend the time for investigation in 40 times over the last four years. They have made no headway in the sensational murder probe. The families of these two murdered journalists-Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi-have nothing to do but wait while the investigations remain dormant. They couple were killed at their rented flat in the capital’s West Razabazar on February 11 in 2012. A high official of Home Ministry said, law enforcers are investigating into the all sensational murders with an extra importance. “But they could not detain the killers as they are well-trained from militant organizations.” Nazrul Islam, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police said the law enforcers are trying to unearth all murder incidents. The submitting of the charge sheets of sensational murder cases will take comparatively long time for the shake of proper investigation, the DIG said. Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan, Director (Legal and Media Wing) of RAB headquarters, told The New Nation, “We attached the highest priority to unearthing mystery of the sensational killings.”
