In Lakshmipur, three persons were arrested in connection with the public beating of school teacher Akhtar Hossain Babu by tying him to an electric pole for slandering the party. They were sent to the district jail by the Lakshmipur court on Monday (April 15) afternoon.
They are Shaheed Alam, Simon Hossain and his brother Shravan. Shaheed is the son of Abdul Mannan of Ward No. 9 of Lakshmipur Municipality, Simon and Shravan are the sons of Khorshed Alam of the same area.
According to the police, on Sunday night, victim Akter’s brother Masudur Rahman Masud filed a case against eight people including Sumon alias Pecha Sumon at the Sadar Model Police Station. The police arrested three people in a raid in the Samserabad area of the city in the night.
It has been reported that teacher Akhtar was brutally tortured in Ayub Ali’s pool area of Ward No. 9 of Laxmipur Municipality on Friday night. He is under treatment in the hospital medicine department at Sadar Hospital. Akhtar is the son of late Lakiyat Ulya of Laharkandi area of Lakshmipur town and a teacher at Cambridge Scholars School in Dhaka.
According to Akter’s family sources, Akter came to visit his house during the Eid holidays. On the day of the incident, after the evening, he went to Ayub Ali’s pool area to pray at the house of his younger brother Masud. On the way from there, Pecha Sumon, Simon Hossain, auto rickshaw driver Alauddin Alo, Momin Uliah and Shravan tied him hands and feet to an electric pole, accusing him of malam party. At one stage, the accused took the money and mobile phone with him. Later they beat him with sticks in public and seriously injured him.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Laxmipur Sadar Model Police Station Saifuddin Anwar said that a case has been registered in the case of torture of the teacher. Three people involved in the incident were arrested and sent to court. The court ordered to send them to jail.
Kajal Kayes/RH/MS
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