Two Minor Accused Indicted in Renu Lynching Case

A special tribunal here today framed charges against two minor accused in a case lodged over killing of Taslima Begum Renu in a mob beating in North Badda area in the capital in 2019.

Judge Mst Kamrunnahar of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 framed the charges against Jafar and Wasim and set November 8 to start recording deposition of the witnesses in the case.

Earlier on April 1, Dhaka 6th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Fatima Imrose Konika indicted 13 adult accused in the case. Those accused are-Ibrahim alias Hridoy Mollah, Riya Begum Moyna, Abul Kalam Azad, Kamal Hossain, Md Shahin, Bacchu Miah, Md Bappy, Murad Miah, Sohel Rana, Asadul Islam Billal Mollah, Md Raju and Mohin Uddin.

Investigation officer (IO) and Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Abdul Haque filed a charge-sheet against a total 15 accused on September 20, 2020.

Renu, 40, a single-mother of two, was brutally beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being a child lifter, in front of North Badda Government Primary School in the morning on July 20, 2019.

It was later learned that Renu went there to take information regarding admission of her daughter Tahsin Tuba, 4, at that school. Renu's nephew Nasir Uddin filed the case with Badda Police Station against 400-500 unidentified people. (BSS)