Murder for Dowry

UNO's office besieged for arrest of killers

Our Correspondent, Sirajganj
Several hundred people including students and teachers laid a siege to Raiganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer's office in Sirajganj yesterday protesting to the killing of young school teacher Shikha Khatun and demanding arrest of the killers.

The demonstrators brought out a procession in the upazila headquarters and held a rally in front of UNO office with Shamsul Huq in the chair.

The protesters besieged the UNO office for an hour from 10 am and submitted a memorandum to the UNO demanding immediate arrest and punishment to the killers.

Speakers at the rally said a tougher agitation will be launched if the killers are not arrested within two days.

Shikha, a computer teachers at Charpara High School, was murdered on May 4 allegedly by her husband for dowry, according to a case filed by her family.

Her husband Abu Taher, a teacher of Bramhagachha Primary School, is absconding since the murder, police said. He hailed from Bramhagachha village in Raiganj upazila.