Police dig up the body of two people killed during student movements in Cumilla

Police have exhumed the bodies of two people killed during protests led by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Cumilla.

The bodies of Md Rifat, 16, and Md Babu Mia, 23, were exhumed from the Daudkandi upazila of the district yesterday (October 26) on the orders of the court for the sake of investigation.

Among them, Rifat was a tenth class student while Babu was a mason.

According to police, Rifat was seriously injured after being shot in the chest during the student movement on August 4. He succumbed to death that night and his family buried him without an autopsy.

On August 18, a person named Abdur Razzak identified himself as Rifat’s uncle and filed a murder case at the Daudkandi Model Police Station 14 days after Rifat’s death.

On September 1, Rifat’s mother, Nipa Begum, filed another murder case in a court in Cumilla, which is being investigated by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Police said former MP Engineer Abdus Sabur, former upazila chairman Major (retd) Mohammad Ali Sumon, former municipal mayor Naim Yusuf Sein and 400 others have been accused in both cases.

Meanwhile, Babu was shot in the chest and died in front of Daudkandi police station on August 5.

He too was buried without an autopsy. Later, Babu’s neighbor, Liton Ahmed Pavel, filed a murder case, naming 48 people and leaving 150 others unnamed.

Police said both bodies were exhumed by court order as no autopsies took place. Daudkandi Deputy Commissioner (Land) Redwan Islam, the investigating officer of the case, and Sub-Inspector of Daudkandi Model Police Station Harunur Rashid were present.

“The families of the deceased had buried them because there was no way to conduct autopsies at that time. The bodies have been sent to the Cumilla Medical College mortuary. The bodies will be handed over to their families after autopsies,” Harunur said. .

AC (Land) Redwan said the next proceedings will follow the autopsy reports.