Police have submitted charge sheet against five people in the case filed over brutal murder of five-year-old Tuhin Miah. The Police submitted the charge sheet in a Sunamganj court on Monday against Tuhin’s father Abul Basir, his uncle and three others.
Superintendent of Police (SP) of Sunamganj Mizanur Rahman said this at a press conference at his office on Monday noon.
The SP said that they found involvement of family members in the brutal murder.
The child’s father, uncle and cousins brutally killed Tuhin Miah to implicate their rivals. The accused in the charge sheet are Abdul Basir, Tuhin’s uncle Jamshed, Shahriar, Mosobbir and Tuhin’s cousin Shaharul. Tuhin’s father and uncle planned to kill the child to implicate Anwar Member of the same village, he added.
Abdul Basir took the boy out of home while he was asleep in the wee hours. He, his brother Jamshed Ali, and nephew Shahriar Hossain killed the child.
In a heinous act of crime, the child boy was murdered by his family members at Kejaura village under Rajanagar union at Derai upazila in Sunamganj in the wee hours on October 14.
The murderers had left the body hanging from a tree near the family’s house, after stabbing him, slitting his throat, and cutting off his ears and genitals. The killers also left two knives they used to kill him jammed in abdomen of the child.
The murder drew condemnation from people across the country on social media, at Kejaura village under the upazila’s Rajanagar union.
On that day, police detained seven people, mostly family members, for questioning. Later, Tuhin's mother Monira Begum filed the case.
