Thirteen people were on Tuesday charged by a Bangladeshi court in the
brutal lynching of a 13-year-old boy that provoked a national outrage
after a video of him being tortured went viral.
Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Akbor Hossain Mridha framed
charges against the 13 accused, including main suspect Kamrul Islam, who
fled to Saudi Arabia, and said that trial will begin on October 1.
Prosecutor Mokur Ali said that the statements of the witnesses will be recorded till October 15, the Daily Star reported.
The boy, Samiul Islam Rajon, died of internal bleeding, after being
tortured by a group of persons over an allegation of stealing a bicycle
in Sylhet on July 8.
Following a police probe, the allegation was found untrue.
One of the accused filmed the entire incident of thrashing the boy using a mobile phone camera and uploaded it on Internet.
Kamrul fled to Saudi Arabia soon after the incident. He was later
detained by Saudi police. Despite Bangladesh government’s diplomatic
efforts to bring him back, the Saudi authorities are yet to make it
clear when they will repatriate him, the report said.
Ten men are in police custody after being arrested with the help of local residents, and two others are still at large.
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