Dhaka – The High Court on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to produce two children, arrested for their suspected involvement in a murder from Kamrangirchar, before the court on January 29. –UNB news agency reported
The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah asked the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to produce the children before the court through a top police official.
Barrister Mohammad Abdul Halim, chairman of Ainjibi Children Charity Bangladesh Foundation, filed the writ petition with the HC and stood for the children while deputy attorney general Tapash Kumar Biswas represented the state.
Abdul Halim said the HC on November 29 last issued a rule and asked police to submit a report determining the age of the two children in the case.
Following the HC order, Lalbagh DC and officer-in-charge of Kamrangirchar Police Station submitted a report on January 4.
On November 24, 2016, a report titled ‘Identity of the body could not be know yet: 2 children arrested’ published in a vernacular daily.
The report said police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified child two months ago, and the family members filed a case in this regard 10 days after the recovery of the body. Police arrested two children suspecting their involvement in the murder and later they were sent to the Tongi Juvenile Development Centre by a court.
It said the two children confessed to the police their guilt and victim’s family members and a cousin of the victim uploaded two video clips of their testimonies on the social networking site which went viral.
However, the body could not yet be identified.
According to the postmortem report, the victim died after drowning while the accused children claimed that they had been tortured and forced to admit the guilt.
