APolice let a mob beat a 16-year-old boy to death on suspicion of being a robber at Tekerhat in Noakhali on July 27, witnesses told a private TV channel yesterday.
A video footage of the incident telecast on Somoy TV channel last night showed how the mob beat him after police forced the boy, Shamsuddin Milon, to get off a police van.
Police claimed that six suspected robbers were beaten to death on that day.
A local said they handed over the boy to SI Akram after locals caught him on suspicion of being a robber.
Another witness said, “I saw the boy getting on the police van.”
“The policemen were repeatedly telling people to kill the boy,” said another witness to the incident.
A local claimed that he knew Milon for long and the boy had never been involved in any criminal activities.
Home Minister Shahara Khatun told the TV channel that the people responsible for Milon's death will be brought to book.
Meanwhile, three policemen including a sub-inspector were suspended on Saturday night for negligence in duty after Milon's mother Kohinoor Begum filed a case against the policemen and two locals, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
The suspended policemen are Akram Sheikh, sub-inspector of Companyganj Police Station, and constables Abdur Rahim and Hema Ranjan Chakma, said Police Super Harunur Rashid Hazari.
A three-member probe committee led by Additional Superintendent of Police Mahbubur Rashid has been formed to probe Milon's death, he said.
On August 3, Kohinoor filed the case with the Judicial Magistrate's Court claiming that villagers beat her son to death in the presence of police suspecting him to be a robber.
She alleged that police did not try to save her son from the angry mob. They left wounded Milon lying on a road, instead of arranging treatment for him.
After Milon succumbed to his wounds, police took his body to the police station, said Kohinoor.

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