Aminbazar 6 Murder

AL leader arrested

31 October 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Police yesterday arrested a local Awami League (AL) leader from his Baradeshi village in Aminbazar as one of the prime suspects of the killing of six students in the village on July 18 this year. Shamsul Haque alias Shamsu Member, 47, a vice president of Aminbazar union unit AL, had been in hiding since the killing. Savar Police Station OC Asaduzzaman told The Daily Star that Shamsu was arrested around 11:00am from the village, as he was allegedly one of the main murderers of the students. “Shamsu is also a veteran dealer of illegal drugs and also an accused in the killing of expatriate Nazrul Islam in April this year,” said the OC. Several hundred villagers lynched the six students at Keblarchar of the village when they went there in the early hours of July 18. The victims are Tipu Sultan of Tejgaon College, Towhidur Rahman Palash, Kamruzzaman Kanto and Ibrahim Khalil of Mirpur Bangla College, Shams Rahim Shamam of Maple Leaf International School, and Sitaf Jabi Munif of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology. Sub-Inspector Anwar Hossain of the police filed a murder case on July 19 accusing five to six hundred unidentified villagers in connection with the killing while one sand trader filed another case against the victims saying that they robbed his business centre. CID is now investigating both the cases. Earlier on July 23, Savar police arrested two drug peddlers--Sanwar Hossain, 28, and Mohammad Selim, 25, from Aminbazar and Baradeshibazar in this connection. They are now in jail custody. Earlier two committees were formed--one by police and another by judicial--to investigate the killing. Both the probe bodies found that the victims were innocent and not robbers and police on duty at the spot were negligent in saving their lives. The judicial probe body in its report mentioned that the killers could be identified and the mystery behind the killings could be discovered if the sand traders and drug peddlers are arrested.