Five teachers arrested over death of Chattogram madrasa boy

The father of Md Habibur Rahman, an 11-year-old boy whose body was recovered from a mosque inside a madrasa in Chattogram, has initiated a murder case.

Police showed five people, including the madrasa's teacher Tarekur Rahman and Principal Abu Darda, arrested in connection with the case on Friday.

The three other arrestees are madrasa teachers Md Zubayer, Md Anas Ali, and Md Abdus Samad.

Habibur's father Anisur Rahman started the murder case under Section 302 of the Penal Code, Bayezid Bostami Police Station OC Ataur Rahman Khondaker said.

The accused face maximum death penalty if found guilty.

Anisur named Tarek and Abu Darda along with seven others as suspects in the case.

"We had brought five suspects, including the madrasa's principal and Tarek, to the police station for questioning. We have arrested all five of them after recording the case," the OC said.

Habibur's body was found hanging from the grills of a window at a mosque inside Omar Faruk al-Islamia Madrasa and Orphanage in Wazedia area of the port city on Wednesday.

Some injury marks were found on his knees, police said.

The madrasa authorities claimed the boy had taken his own life, but the family allege he was murdered and later his body was hanged.

His father Anisur pulls rickshaw in Chattogram City. The family from Dighinala in Khagrhachharhi live in Shershah area of the port city while Habibur was a residential student of the madrasa.