Staff Reporter :
This time an 11-year-old boy had been walloped brutally after tying with a electric pillar during the Pohela Baishakh celebrations at Pateshwari Bazar of Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram district on Friday morning. Charge was brought against the victim that he sprayed paints on the body of a decorator owner Alam Hossain.
The sad thing is that nothing, even the very recent death sentence in a child killing case in Sylhet made the accused respectful to law.The victim has been identified as Masud Rana, son of one Mofizul Haque, inhabitant of Pateshwari village in the area. He was admitted to Bhurangamri Health Compelx with severe injuries.
Victim’s father Mofizul Haque filed a case with the Bhurungamari Police Station in this connection on Friday night.
The accused are decorator owner Alam Hossain, auto-rickshaw driver Faridul, and electrician Handra, Police said.
Quoting witnesses, Bhurungamari Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Tapas Chandra Pandit said, “Alam got sprayed with paint when the victim was playing with colours with his friends. Alam Hossain became infuriated and with the help of Faridul and three to four others tied the boy with a electgric pillar and beat him mercilessly around 8:30am.
“Mofizul Haque came to the police in the evening and we asked him to file a complaint. We would take action against the accused with the filing of the case,” the police official said.
Plaintiff Mofizul Haque claimed that Paikerchhara Union Awami League General Secretary Shahidul and prime accused Alam’s family members were pressing him to withdraw the case.
He said, “They asked me to withdraw the case, otherwise they threatened me of trapping me in a case with mass signatures.”
“I fear an attack on my life and properties as I have been living with the family in the house of my father-in-law for long. We are refugees to a section of the local people. They are trying to make us deported from here as per the conspiracy relating with politics.”
He sought exemplary punishment to the torturers and his cohorts.
Contrarily, Awami League leader Shahidul denied the accusation saying that they sat in a meeting with former Chairman Jabbar where everyone asked the victim’s father to accept the negotiation.
OC Tapash Chandra said that none till that time complained of threatening the life and property of the victim’s family. We are trying to arrest the accused as early as possible, the OC said.
