Six youths, all students of Dhaka’s different educational institutions, were killed on the night of holy Shab-e-barat in Amin Bazaar area by a violent mob of local people who mistook the boys for bandits in a frenzy of wrath.
According to police and parents, the victims of miscarriage of justice are Ibrahim Khalil, 24, of Taejon College, Tip u,25, Polish, 22, of Mirpur Govt Bang la College, Panto, 24, Minor, 23, and Shams R ohm Sham am, 23, an A-level student of Mastermind School and College. Another youth, identified as Al Amin, son of Hobby Bepari of Madaripur district, was seriously injured in the late-night fury worked up by call for resistance against robbery over mailer from nearby mosques crammed with devotees in overnight prayers. Sham-am cousin SM Rift Shahriar Ar-nab told Bangladesh that Sharma father Scudding M Aminur Ra him and mother Shamsi Ara Karim are both lawyers.
A tearful Arnab said, Shamam was a meritorious student, not a robber. All the victims were my friends.
Shaman parents said their son went out of home on Sunday night for Shab-e-barat prayers. We thought he would come home in the morning after completing prayers in the mosque. But, he did not come back, his death news came,” said the shell-shocked father of Shamam.
Ibrahim Khalil, son of Abu Taher in Kolhapur area, was an honors first year student of Accounting Dept of Mirpur Bang la College. Khalil’s uncle Abdul Barack said kept contact with his nephew over cell phone till 12 midnight. Barack claimed the boys were killed in a planned way.
Injured Al Amin, who is undergoing treatment at Saver Upazila Health Complex, said he along with six friends from Mirpur and Shambolic in the capital got down from rickshaws near Par bat Cinema Hall on Sunday night after finishing their prayers.
We went to Koral Char Babur Math on foot. When we were gossiping there, local people attacked and beat us black and blue suspecting us as robbers, killing my six friends on the spot, said Amin, narrating the nightmare he narrowly survived to tell the tale of a dreadful case of mistaken identity . Dhaka district police super Imamura Rah man told Initially, it was assumed that six robbers were killed. But, now a different story is coming out. This tragic incident shows how terrible consequences can take place if people take the law into their own hands. Amin Bazaar union Awami League general secretary Okil Odin said, A robbery was committed in the area few days ago. In fear of further robbery, villagers were keeping vigilance. As the villagers saw the youths in the midnight, they suspected them as robbers and though that they were taking preparation of committing robbery. And then attacked them. Earlier, local people had told police that six robbers were beaten to death while committing robbery at the house of a businessman at Badeshi village in Amin Bazaar union. The shocking incident of loss of lives of six students of the capital's prominent colleges struck the traumatized feeling of people when their memory is still haunted by a terrible tragedy of 44 deaths of schoolboys in Mirsarai of Chittagong as a truck carrying them was driven into a ditch.
The killing sparked off strong protest as thousands of inhabitants of Mirpur barricaded Dares Salem road in the city in the afternoon.
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