Finds departmental probe into Noakhali incident; OC closed
A police enquiry has found that law enforcers helped a mob beat dead 16-year-old Shamsuddin Milon in Noakhali on July 27.
A three-member probe body headed by Additional Superintendent of Police Mahbubur Rashid submitted its report yesterday, said Assistant Superintendent of Police Billal Hossain.
The killing took place due to negligence of Akram Sheikh, sub-inspector of Companyganj Police Station, and constables Abdur Rahim and Hema Ranjan Chakma, said Billal, also a member of the committee.
The trio was suspended on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the officer-in-charge of the station was suspended yesterday for negligence in duty during the incident that left six people including Milon dead.
Locals caught Milon around 9:30am at Tekerhat in the district taking him for a robber and handed him over to police.
But the police on their way to the station forced him off their van and let a mob beat him dead, according to a video footage aired on Somoy TV on Sunday night.
Md Rafiqullah, the OC, was closed to Noakhali Police Lines, said Harunur Rashid Hazari, Noakhali superintendent of police.
Family members said Milon studied up to class X. His father Gias Uddin is a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia. After taking some training at a welding factory, the boy was waiting for a visa to the kingdom to be sent by his father.
Following the incident, his mother Kohinoor Begum filed a case with the Judicial Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, saying that villagers beat her son dead in police presence.
She said Milon was going to his grandparent’s house with Tk 14,000 for land registration on that morning. On the way, he was waiting to meet his cousin, a class VI student at Char Kakra Academy School.
A group of people caught him and started beating him. At one stage, local UP member Jamal Uddin handed him over to police.
Instead of saving him, police let the mob kill him, the case statement said. After beating him severely, locals left him on the road where he succumbed to his injuries. Police later took his body to the police station.
Contacted, Jamal Uddin said he rescued Milon from the mob and gave him to a police team led by Sub-inspector Akram. Later, he heard that police forced the boy off their van and let the locals kill him.
Nizam Uddin, another witness, supported Jamal.
-With The Daily Star input
