Indictment hearing to start Sept 22

A Sylhet court yesterday fixed September 22 for starting charge framing hearing in Rajon killing case.

On September 7, Judge Shahedul Karim of Metropolitan Magistrate's Court-1 sent the case to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court.

Detectives submitted a charge sheet to the court of Shahedul Karim on August 16, accusing 13 people and showing 38 people as witnesses.

Police showed three of the accused -- Kamrul Islam, Shamim and Pavel -- as fugitives while 10 others are now in custody.

On July 8, Rajon, 13, was beaten to death allegedly by Kamrul and several others in Kumargaon Bus Stand area of Sylhet Sadar upazila as, what the culprits claimed, he attempted to steal a rickshaw-van.

Bangladeshis handed Kamrul over to Saudi police after he fled to the country.