None Held Yet for Jesmin Murder
Sunamganj protest rally terms police role 'mysterious'
Locals at a protest rally at Bhoglabazar in Doarabazar upazila in Sunamganj yesterday demanded immediate arrest and punishment to the killers of the daughter of Khorshed Miah, a freedom fighter of the district.
They also threatened that in case of failure to arrest the rapist and killers by December 15, they will launch further agitation programme including besiege of local police station.
Union parishad chairman of Lakhsmipur Amirul Haque chaired the protest rally while Sunamganj Zila Muktijoddha Sangsad deputy commander Abu Sufian, upazila assistant commanders Azim Uddin Master and Safar Ali and Taiyab Ali Master spoke.
They alleged that the accused were moving freely in the area while the police playing a mysterious role.
The law enforcers failed to nab any of the culprits who raped and killed the daughter of the freedom fighter from village Balichhara under Doarabazar in Sunamganj district about weeks after the brutal incident, they said.
Earlier, Sunamganj unit of 'Amra Muktijoddhar Santan' staged a human chain and a rally on November 23 in front of the Shaheed Minar in the town demanding arrest of the killers.
Victim Jesmin Begum used to work at a garment factory in the capital. The incident happened when she reached Sylhet central bus terminal on November 12 on way to her village for Eid.
At the terminal she met her cousin Saiful and his brother-in-law Shahid and agreed to go to her village home with them.
But the two took her to a house in the city and attempted to solemnize her marriage with a man.
As she turned down the proposal the two kept her confined there for two nights and raped her.
At a stage, she fled the place on November 15. But the two culprits, this time along with others swooped on her near the village home and took her to a nearby haor.
There they violated her and stabbed her to death and dumped the body under sand and mud of the water body.
Contacted, officer-in-charge of Doarabazar police station Saidur Rahman said yesterday afternoon that police were 'trying their best' to arrest the killers. He also denied the allegations of police inaction.
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