25-km human chain demanding justice in Lokman killing case
Family members of slain Narsingdi municipality mayor Lokman Hossain among multitude of people join a human chain on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narsingdi district yesterday demanding fair investigation into the murder, right, a large number of vehicles got stuck in tailback during the programme. Inset- Lokman HossainPhoto: STAR
People from all walks of life formed a 25-killometre-long human chain in Narsingdi district yesterday demanding fair and neutral investigation into the case for murder of Narsingdi mayor Lokman Hossain. Tens of thousands of people kept standing peacefully on both sides of Dhaka-Sylhet highway from Madhabdi to Raipura upazila during the hour-long human chain from 11:00am to 12:00pm. Participants including students, teachers, farmers, workers, service holders and leaders of different political parties in the human chain reiterated their demand for bringing to book the real perpetrators of the murder of popular public representative Lokman. Holding banners, festoons and placards, they also demanded that the government remove posts and telecommunications minister Rajiuddin Ahmed from the cabinet for the sake of 'fair and impartial' investigation into the much talked about killing. “Rajiuddin's brother Salauddin Ahmed is the main accused in the murder case. Law enforcement agencies are not investigating impartially due to interference of the minister,” Kamruzzaman, younger brother of Lokman, said in the human chain. Masterminds behind the gruesome assassination have not been arrested more than a month after the incident, speakers said at the programme organised by Narsingdi unit of Awami League. People will be bound to wage agitation if law enforcement agencies divert the case to a wrong direction, said SM Kaiyum, a close aide to Lokman, said. Local lawmaker Nazrul Islam, Lokman's mother Majeda Begum, wife Tamanna Nusrat Bubli and brothers Kamruzzaman and Shamim Newaz also took part in the human chain. Thousands of vehicles got stuck in around 40-kilometre-long tailback on Dhaka-highway during the human chain, witnesses said. Meanwhile, Narsingdi police yesterday took Kazi Alam, a suspect in Lokman killing, under a fresh remand for four days. Arrested on November 28, Alam was earlier taken to eight-day remand.
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