Schoolboy Niloy murder case handed over to DB

Niloy with his mother. PHOTO: File Photo

According to police sources, transfer of the case on murder of the eight year-old Schoolboy followed an order by Sirajganj Police Superintendent Shahadat Hossain.

SI Nuru Mollah, who was the first investigation officer (IO) of the case has been closed to the police line for alleged neglect, they said.

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Niloy, a student of class two at a school in the capital, had gone to his grand father's house at Bhormohoni village along with his parents to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha.

A gang of criminals abducted him from the courtyard of his grandfather's house on January 12 and demanded Tk six lakh ransom. They slaughtered the boy as his father declined to pay the ransom. Since the gruesome incident, different political and socio-cultural organisations brought out several processions and held rallies in Sirajganj town demanding arrest and punishment of the killers.

Niloy's father Abdul Hamid filed a case with Solonga police station in this connection. Police arrested three of the accused and, acting on their confessions, recovered the body of Niloy from a safety tank of a latrine in the same village on January 14.

But investigation officer (IO) Nuru Mollah, with the help of the Officer-in-Charge concerned, tried to save the killers, it was alleged by the victim's family.

Following this allegation, locals, joined by NGO activists, started protests demanding removal of the IO.

The SP yesterday issued an order for handover of the case to DB police.

Talking to this correspondent, Niloy's father Abdul Hamid said, "'We want that DB police arrest the killers immediately and submit the charge sheet".