New Age | Young man goes to police after wife says he was killed during July-August movement

A youth presented himself at the Dakshing Surma police station of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police on Monday evening to prove that he was not dead, although his wife claimed that he was killed during the anti-student movement. discrimination at Ashulia in Dhaka on August 5.

She also filed a complaint in this regard with the Dhaka High Court after the fall of Sheikh Hasina, amid the student-led mass uprising.

Officer-in-charge of Dakshin Surma police station, Abul Hussain, confirmed the incident to New Age.

He said Alamin Mia, 34, son of Nurul Islam of Rangpur sadar upazila of Rangpur division, came to the police station on Monday around 9 p.m. and claimed that he was not dead, but his wife Kulsuma Begum, 21, filed a complaint. a case mentioning that he was killed on August 5 during the student movement in Ashulia.

Alamin said he and his father were living in Pirojpur under Ward No 25 of Sylhet City Corporation for over three decades and he was working as a sales representative of a private company in Moulvibazar, the police officer said.

Alamin claimed that he had a conflict with his wife several weeks ago when they were living in Juri Upazila and his wife Kulsuma had left for her father’s house in Ashulia in Dhaka.

The officer said Alamin said one of the victims, killed in the police shooting in Ashulia on August 5, could not be identified and that his wife had taken the incident as a way to get money. money from government and other quarters.

“Kulsuma filed a petition in the Dhaka High Court on October 24 against 130 people, including deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, claiming that I was killed in the Ashulia clashes,” Alamin said, adding that the court had accepted the allegation and ordered the Ashulia police station to register a case in this regard.

“He said that he went into hiding after hearing the news of the complaint being filed and has now come to the police station to get rid of the harassment,” the OC said.

The CO also said he contacted the Ashulia police immediately after receiving Alamin’s complaint.

“Ashulia police station sub-inspector Rakibul Hossain, also an investigating officer in the case, arrived at Dashing Surma police station on Tuesday morning and Alamin was handed over to him,” said OC Abul Hossain.

Rakibul Hossain told New Age on Tuesday evening that Alamin would be produced before the concerned court on Wednesday for directions regarding him.

“Kulsum was on the run,” the police officer added.