Three Natore JL stalwarts found dead [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

Three Natore JL stalwarts found dead

Local December 06, 2016

The police recovered bullet-hit bodies of a leader and two activists of Natore town unit Juba League, the ruling Awami League-backed youth body, from a roadside garden on Dinajpur-Ghoraghat highway at Kalabari in Dinajpur Monday morning.
The deceased – Natore town JL convening committee member Redwan Sabbir, 32, of Kanaikhali village, and JL activists Abdullah, 27, of Kanaikhali village and Sohel Hossain, 25, of Rothbari village under Natore upazila – were abducted from a tea stall at Takia bazaar under Natore upazila Saturday night in the name of Rapid Action Battalion.
The bodies were found about 150 kilometres
away from their hometown of Natore.
Ghoraghat police officer-in-charge Md Israil Hossain said that local people saw the bodies at Kalabari and informed police.
Police rushed the spot, recovered the bodies with bullet hit in the heads and sent them to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital for post mortem examination, he said.
He said that the families of the deceased, seeing their photos on different media, came to Dinajpur in the afternoon and identified them.
The police officer said that the bodies were handed over to their families at about 7:30pm after post mortem examinations.
No case was filed and none was arrested, Israil said.
Natore district and town units of Awami Juba League at a press conference at Natore Press Club demanded that the killers must be identified and brought to justice.
District Juba League president Ruhul Amin Biplab said that unidentified people abducted the three Saturday night at gunpoint from Takia bazaar and took them away in a white microbus and a car.
Immediately after the incident, he said, local leaders of the Awami League and its front organisations looked for them at every possible place in vain.
Natore police officer-in-charge Mizanur Rahman said that there were 12 cases against Sabbir and three cases against Sohel.
He said that they were, however, on bail.
Sabbir’s mother Rokhsana Begum lodged a general diary with Natore police station on Sunday stating that a group of plainclothes people picked up her son claiming them to be members of Rapid Action battalion, Natore police said.
The Natore camp commander of the battalion, Mizanur Rahman, said that they did not pick them up.
Local Awami League lawmaker Shafiqul Islam told reporters at parliament that he and other Natore lawmaker met the prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the Jatiya Sangsad and raised the issue.
‘We strongly protested at the gruesome killing of our party activists…We have also told netri [Hasina] that we cannot tolerate killing of our activists,’ Shafiqul said.
He said that the Hasina assured them that she would look into the matter and take necessary measures to identify the people responsible for the killings.