Family members and relatives of Biplob. one of the two schoolboys stabbed to death at Meerertek in the city’s Ramna on Tuesday, requested the government yester day to ensure exemplary punish ment to the murderers.

"I request the government to find out the murderers and ensure their exemplary punishment." Biplob's aunt Salma told The Daily Star after Biplob's qulkhwani at his grandmother's residence at Meerertekyesterday afternoon.

"Biplob hugged me as I felt unwell four days before he was killed. He told me that he would take me to a hospital. ” she said.

The Detective Branch (DB) of police, which is investigating the case, is yet to identify the killers of seven-year-old Biplob and nine-year-old Jewel.

Investigation officer of the case Inspector Abul Kalam Azad said, "Opinions of the doctors and the inquest report suggest that the boys were molested before they were killed." Locals, however, said the murderers live in the area.

Ramna police on Thursday afternoon recovered the decomposed bodies of Jewel, son of rickshawpuller Alaluddin, and Biplob, son of car driver Siddique Sheikh, from an abandoned house at Noyatola about a kilometre off their houses.

Locals alleged that criminals use the. tin-shed house that was abandoned about two and a half years back