Locals detain Ali Haider, last suspect named in Rajan killing FIR

Locals have nabbed Ali Haider, the last of the four accused of brutally beating 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajan to death in Sylhet Sadar Upazila, and handed him over to the police.

Jalalabad police OC Akhter Hossain told bdnews24.com he was picked up from Shekhparha with help of locals around 11:15am on Friday. 

The 34-year-old is the brother of Muhit Alam and Kamrul Islam, who were picked up before. 

Moyna Mia, the security guards accused of abetting the three brothers in the killing, had been picked up on July 14. 
 
A day before Mia’s arrest, Kamrul Islam had been taken into police custody in Jeddah by the local police after the Bangladesh embassy in the Saudi Arabian city sought their help.

Locals caught Muhit Alam on July 8 when he was trying to dump Rajan’s body. He was later handed over to police.

Police in the past two days also detained Alam’s wife, brother-in-law, and two others who witnessed the gory torture on the boy for questioning.

Alam and another suspect are currently in police remand.

Several men, on suspicion of theft, had barbarically tortured Rajan to death on July 8 in Kumargaon village.

One of the suspected assailants had filmed the whole incident and later released it on the internet. The 28-minute video clip created a furore on the social media as it went viral.

Since then, different organisations have been demonstrating across Bangladesh, demanding the maximum punishment for the culprits for their heinous crime.