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CROSSFIRE KILLING

Masum's parents for judicial probe

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Parents of Jagannath University student Iqbal Hossain Masum, who was killed on August 8 in "crossfire" with crime-busting force Cheetah, have appealed to the prime minister and the home minister to form a judicial enquiry into the killing and ensure punishment to the killers.
Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club yesterday, Masum's father Khandaker Abul Khaer termed the murder a cold blooded one and said, "If Inspector Nurul Alam and other members of team No 4 of Detective Branch are quizzed, the mystery behind the killing will be revealed."
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"I have not only lost my son, with him I have lost my future dreams," Masum's father said.
He is now worried about the security of his younger son Rajib, a class IX student of Mohammadpur Government High School.
"If the killers are not arrested and punished, they may kill my younger son too," he said, adding that unknown callers threatened his family of dire consequences if they raised voice about Masum's death.
A Detective Branch (DB) team picked up Masum from a family programme at Mehedi community centre in Mohammadpur on August 8 and the next day his family found his body at Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue.
The DB tried to brand Masum as notorious criminal "Gharkata Masum" and said he was accused in several cases including six for murders, but investigation by different newspapers found no case or even any general diary against him.
Around one month into the killing, police could not come up with any specific evidence or records to substantiate their claim.
Masum's father Khaer, mother Renu Ara Begum and sisters Nazma Khatun Nila and Salma Khatun Shimul, who were present at the press conference, broke into tears when Nila was reading out a
written speech narrating the horrifying tales of Masum's death.
Mentioning a dispute with Iqbal Hossain Likhon, chairman of Nilkomol union of Charfashion upazila in Bhola, Khaer alleged that Likhon and someone in Dhaka might use the DB men to kill Masum to take revenge on his family.
A Tk 26.9 lakh money suit brought by him against Likhon and some police officials might be a reason behind his son's death, he said.
Khaer said he will file a murder case in connection with his son's killing.
"I do not know why the DB men snatched away my innocent son forever. I want punishment of my son's killers," Masum's mother Renu Ara burst into tears with these words.
"I request the prime minister and the home minister to take steps so that the killers are brought to book," she said.
Masum's eldest sister Nazma Khatun Nila said his dress was clean and sandals were intact in his legs even when he was lying in the hospital morgue which suggests that he was killed in cold blood.
Former chairman of Nilkamal union Abul Kashem was also present at the press conference.