Reinvestigate maiming of child: HC
The High Court yesterday directed the government to form a high powered committee to reinvestigate the incident of maiming a seven-year old child and forcing him into begging.
Neyamul, son of Umed Ali, a rickshaw puller of Ashrafabad in the city's Kamrangirchar, was maimed and forced into begging by a gang of miscreants in December 2010.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim passed the order after it found discrepancies in the reports of the home ministry, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police.
Rab claimed that some miscreants maimed the child, police submitted a final report to the lower court concerned clearing all the accused from the charge, while the home ministry said no such maiming incident had taken place, said Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain.
During the hearing of a rule, the court said the committee, to be formed under the leadership of an additional secretary of the home ministry, must submit the investigation report to it within 60 days.
Ain O Salish Kendra, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Brac yesterday prayed to the court to direct the government to reinvestigate the incident.
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