A boy's death in police care
The news of death of a teenage boy in police custody, published in different national dailies on Dec 3, must have evoked emotions in all conscious readers. It was alleged that police of Jatrabari PS had picked the boy Sagor(17), along with others during the pre-hartal mass arrest while he was on his way home. According to the news, the boy was taken on a two-day remand and produced before the court on Nov 29. Afterwards, he was sent to Dhaka Central Jail where he fell sick in the morning on Nov 30 and the jail authorities admitted Sagor to DMCH where he died the same evening. DMCH morgue sources said that injury marks were found on different parts of his body and his lungs were badly infected.
Many now believes that Sagor have been tortured in custody and died due to severity of the injuries. Proper probe should be made into such sad incidents and the guilty should be punished, plain and simple.
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