A Year After Sylhet College Teacher Murder
No charge sheet yet
Prof Harun Ur Rashid
The law enforcers are yet to submit the charge sheet a year after the gruesome killing of Sylhet Government Women's College teacher Harun Ur Rashid. Tired of waiting for justice, the deceased's wife Afroza Harun at a press conference in the capital on March 13 pleaded for sending the case to the monitoring cell of the home ministry. Talking to The Daily Star on March 15, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Muhibul Islam, also investigation officer of the case, however claimed that the investigation is complete and the charge sheet will be submitted soon. Criminals beat up and stabbed to death Harun Ur Rashid, associate professor of philosophy department of Sylhet Government Women's College, in front of his rented house at the city's Goura Govinda Tilla area on March 21 last year. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on March 28 caught Sujina Akhtar Munni, her classmate Safia Khatun Lipi, Russel Ahmed, Alimul Islam and Lokman Ahmed while prime suspect Abdul Latif Kawsar, also boyfriend of Munni, was arrested on November 24. The six people, all on bail now, will be included in the charge sheet, sources said. Kotwali police on March 30 last year took Munni, Lipi, Russel, Alimul and Lokman on three-day remand. Munni and Lipi, who had witnessed the murder from the teacher's house, gave its description to the law enforcers. On April 1, the Judicial Magistrate of Sylhet recorded under Section 164 Munni's confessional statement that narrated how her boyfriend Kawsar beat and stabbed Prof Harun Ur Rashid while Kawsar's friends Russel and Alimul helped. Sources said Kawser got furious as Prof Harun rebuked him for having an affair with Munni, who used to join private tuition at the teacher's house. However Munni claimed that Kawsar became angry as he had heard about the teacher's indecent approaches to her. Following the killed teacher's wife Afroza Harun's appeal to the inspector general of police and the home minister for a proper enquiry and action against the killers and college teachers' work abstention and agitation across the country demanding the same, the case was transferred to the Detective Branch but it did not proceed much. As Afroza again moved to the police high ups and the home minister for proper investigation, the case was shifted to the CID. Immediately after the gruesome murder, police arrested Jamal Ahmed alias Kala Jamal, Dulal Ahmed, Ataul Gani Umon -- all activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, but CID did not find their complicity in the killing, sources said. Meanwhile, Afroza Harun is yet to get the financial benefits that she is entitled as widow of a government service holder.
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