His sister bought two new T-shirts and was planning to order a cake for his 19th birthday. The family made all the preparations to give him a big surprise.
But the home that was supposed to have a birthday party turned into a home of mourning yesterday.
Tipu Sultan, one of the six students beaten to death by a mob on Monday, was only two days away from his 19th birthday.
“We didn’t tell him anything, as we wanted to surprise him,” said his sister Anar Koli, a Dhaka University student.
“What am I going to do with these T-shirts?” she asked reporters at their Shyamoli residence in the capital and broke into tears.
Tipu’s mother Kazi Nazma Sultana has gone speechless. She would not say a word to the journalists who went to her house yesterday.
“Since Tipu was the youngest [among two brothers and a sister] my mother often fed him with her own hands,” said Sheikh Farid, Tipu’s elder brother.
Several hundred students and teachers of Tejgaon College also formed a human chain in front of the college protesting the killing of Tipu Sultan, a first year student of management department. They called for punishment of his killers.
College Principal Prof Abdur Rashid told The Daily Star that Tipu was an innocent boy.
Meanwhile, Tipu’s friends from Government Bangla College brought out a human chain and held a protest rally in front of the college.
“On his birthday, we demand punishment of Tipu’s killers,” said Sumon Mahmud, his friend from the college.
Tipu had a good singing voice and aspired to release an album, he added.
Bangla College Principal Prof SM Mokfur Hossain said three of his students — Ibrahim Khalil of accounting department, Towhidur Rahman Palas of physics department and HSC student Kamruzzaman Kanto — were the victims of society’s brutality.
“None of my boys were robbers. They were never involved in any kind of criminal activities,” he said. “We want proper investigation so that the actual fact is unearthed paving the way for justice.”
Meanwhile, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) student Shitab Zabib Munib was buried at his ancestral village Moklespur of Biral upazila of Dinajpur yesterday morning, reports our Dinajpur correspondent.
Hundreds of people broke into tears seeing his body.
‘I would not have let my son go for the Shab-e-Barat prayers, had I known he would return dead,” his mother said. “My son was innocent; he has never done anything wrong.”
Villagers of Shanila under Bera upazila of Pabna went speechless after the body of Shams Rahim Shamam, 17, an A-level student of Maple Leaf International School, reached on Monday, reports our Pabna correspondent.
He was buried on Monday night.
“Why my son was killed in this way? He is one of the brilliant students of English medium and he was not involved in any kind of crimes. I want justice,” his father Aminur Rahim said.
-With The Daily Star input
