Aprotim murder: two arrested teenagers sent to Tongi child development centre

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Of the four accused arrested in the case over the murder of schoolboy Ishayat Shahriar Aprotim, 13, in Cumilla, the two underage teenagers have been brought to the Tongi Child Development Centre (Boys) in Gazipur. The other two accused have been sent to Cumilla Central Jail.

The two teenagers were taken to the child development centre in Tongi amid tight security on Monday afternoon. The superintendent of the centre confirmed the matter.

According to Tongi Child Development Centre sources, the two teenagers brought there are Mozammel Hossain Fahad, 15, and Kamrul Hasan, 16. As they are under 18 years of age, they have been sent to the child development centre instead of jail on the court’s order.

Earlier, three people including the main accused Saiful Islam alias Tuhin were arrested in the Aprotim murder case. Among them, Tuhin is 19 years old and the other two are underage. Later the involvement of one more person in the case was verified. When the four accused were produced before the court, it ordered that the two teenagers be sent to the Tongi Child Development Centre and the other two to jail, considering their age.

In this regard, Md Emran Khan, superintendent of the Tongi Child Development Centre, said police delivered the two child offenders involved in the Aprotim killing to the Tongi Child Development Centre at around 4pm yesterday.

The deceased, Ishayat Shahriar Aprotim, was the only son of Dr Nahida Begum, associate professor of the Bangla department at Cumilla University, and a seventh-grade student of the local Border Guard Public School. He went missing after leaving their rented house in the Gandhamati area of Kotbari in Cumilla on Friday, 18 September. The next day, Saturday, at around 1pm, his body was recovered from a secluded forest on the Lalmai hills in Sananda village of Bijoypur union in Sadar Dakshin upazila.