Rajon murder: Court orders to publish ad asking fugitives to surrender

A Sylhet court today asked the authorities concerned to publish advertisement in newspapers within seven days asking three fugitives in Rajon killing case to surrender before the court.

The three fugitives are: Kamrul Islam, Shamim Ahmed and Pavel (full name not known), our Moulvibazar correspondent reports quoting Shawkat Chowdhury, a lawyer for Rajon’s father.

After passing the order, Metropolitan Magistrate Shahedul Karim fixed September 7 as the next date of hearing.

On August 16, detectives pressed charges against 13 people for their involvement with the killing of the 13-year-old boy.

In the charge sheet, 10 accused were shown arrested and three others including the prime accused, Kamrul, shown as fugitive.

Kamrul fled to Saudi Arabia soon after the incident. He was later detained by Saudi police. Despite Bangladesh government's diplomatic efforts to bring him back, the Saudi authorities are yet to make it clear when they will repatriate him.

The 10 other accused are Muhit Alam, Ali Haider, Nurul Amin, Dulal Ahmed, Nur Mia, Ayaz Ali, Badal, Firoz Ali, Ruhul Amin, and Asmat Ali.

On July 8, thirteen-year-old Rajon was beaten to death by Kamrul and several other brutes in Kumargaon Bus Stand area of Sylhet Sadar upazila.

His “crime”, they claimed, was trying to steal a rickshaw van. One of culprits filmed the murder incident on a mobile phone and shared it on the social media.

The sickening torture video shook the nation to its core and stirred outcries in the social network and the mainstream media.

Tied to a pole, the boy screamed for help, cried for water and begged for his life. But the group showed no mercy. They laughed, joked and filmed their madness to show it off to people.

In the video footage that went viral, Kamrul, in a black T-shirt and lungi, was seen hitting the boy with a stick in the feet, joints of legs, shoulders and in the head.

They kept beating him, at times knocking him down to the ground, and asking how he would like to take the beating. When Rajon cried for water, they told him to drink his own sweat.

The boy died of brain haemorrhage. His body bore 64 injury marks.