JUBO DAL LEADER’S DEATH IN CUSTODY

Who will I call baba now?

Asks Touhidul’s daughter

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Cumilla

After Touhidul Islam’s body was brought back from Cumilla Medical College Hospital yesterday morning, his neighbours gathered at his house in Italla village to see him for the last time. His wife, four daughters, and relatives were found to be inconsolable.

“Who will I call baba now? He was such a good man. My good Baba...they tortured him and killed him. We, four sisters, are orphans now. I want justice for my father’s murder,” Tasfia Akhter, 14, Touhidul’s eldest, said with a choked voice.

Jubo Dal leader Touhidul Islam, 42, was allegedly tortured to death after being taken from his Cumilla residence in the early hours of Friday by members of the joint forces.

The ambulance carrying Touhidul’s body was later parked in front of the Cumilla Press Club, where hundreds of locals formed a human chain. They demanded justice, claiming that Touhidul was abducted and brutally murdered.

Addressed the media, Touhidul’s wife, Yesmin Nahar, said, “In the early hours of Friday, four men arrived at our house and identified themselves as members of the joint forces. As soon as I let them in, they detained

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