Minor domestic help beaten dead
A minor domestic help was beaten to death allegedly by his employers in the city's Dhanmondi on Tuesday as they suspected the boy for stealing a silver anklet.
The victim is Sharif Bepary, 14. He worked at the residence of Dr Anwar Hossain, 50, a physician of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).
Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge of Kalabagan Police Station, said Dr Anwar informed him over phone at 11:00pm on Tuesday that Sharif committed suicide.
The OC said they recovered the victim's body from Green Life Medical College Hospital in Green road and sent it to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy.
The morgue sources said Sharif's body bore several marks of serious injury.
Dr Anwar and his wife, who is also a doctor, claimed that Sharif hanged himself from window with a rope but did not say why he committed suicide, police said.
The security guards and sources at the resident building said the couple used to torture Sharif, and on Tuesday Dr Anwar took Sharif to the parking ground at 9:00am and asked the security staff to tie him as he would hand the boy over to police, they added.
The sources said Sharif showed them injury marks over his body and said the couple lost a silver anklet and tortured him for that.
The couple returned at 2:00pm and took Sharif to their apartment, said the security guards. At 11:00pm the couple called a security guard and a staff to the flat where Sharif was found lying on the floor, they said.
Asked by the couple, the security staff took to Sharif to Green Life Medical College Hospital.
Sharif's elder brother Ibrahim Bepari told The Daily Star that the couple beat Sharif to death but is now trying to hide it in the name of suicide.
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