Following a court order, the body of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a ninth grader of Dhaka Residential Model College (DRMC), was exhumed from the grave for autopsy on Saturday noon.
On the other hand, ex-students of DRMC staged demonstrations in front of the Prothom Alo office at Kawran Bazaar in the capital demanding justice for Naimul’s death yesterday.
The demonstrators called upon people to boycott the Prothom Alo and its monthly juvenile magazine Kishor Alo and also burned Prothom Alo copies. Students of some other colleges of the city also joined the demonstration.
Naimul died of electrocution on 1 November while enjoying a function at his school playground arranged by ‘Kishor Alo’, a monthly publication of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, and was buried at the family graveyard at Dhannapur village of Sonaimuri upazila under Noakhali district.
A police team led by executive magistrate Elishay Risil exhumed the body from the grave. Sonaimuri UNO Tina Paul, Sonaimuri Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdus Samad, Investigation officer of the case Md. Abdul Alim and Sonapur UP chairman Alamgir Hossain were also present there. The investigation officer of the case said that the body would be sent to Noakhali General Hospital for autopsy.
Earlier on Wednesday, Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Aminul Haque placed an order to exhume the body for autopsy.
Abrar’s father Md. Mujibur Rahman filed a case against Motiur Rahman, editor of the daily Prothom Alo, blaming its mismanagement as the reason of Nailmul’s death. Later, the court accepted the statement of the plaintiff and ordered the autopsy from exhuming the body from the grave. At the same time, the court asked to investigate the complaint filed by Naimul’s father. The court has directed the OC of Mohammadpur police station to submit an investigation report to the court by December 1.
Saudi expatriate Mojibur Rahman’s son Naimul hailed from a Dhannapur village of Sonapur Union under Sonaimuri Upazila of Noakhali district would live at Agargaon in Dhaka with other family members.
