News No.60/2016:
Thursday, July 21, 2016
THE police arrested a
Jumma worker named Kamala Kumar Tripura on Tuesday, 19 July, from an automobile
repair shop in Ramgarh, Khagrachari district, according to sources.
Before his arrest, the
Officer-in-Charge of Ramgarh Thana, Mainuddin, had reportedly been pressuring
him to withdraw a case filed against six Bengali settlers in connection with
the murder of his father Manendra Tripura.
After the arrest,
Kamala, who attended Higher Secondary exam this year from Ramgarh College, has
been falsely implicated with an arson attack, the sources said.
He had been working
with Paharika Motors, an automobile servicing shop in Ramgarh, for two months.
“He has been arrested
because he has refused to withdraw a murder case against the settlers,” his
friend Ajoy Tripura told chtnews.com.
Kamala’s father
Manendra Tripura was murdered on 29 April this year in Gorukata village under
Ramgarh Union No. 1.
His lifeless body,
with his throat slit, was recovered from the jungle nearby his home.
The police refused to
register a case when Kamala mentioned six settlers, who had settled near their
house in Gorukata after forcibly occupying Jumma’s land, as suspects.
Originally, they came
from Satkhira district in the plain land.
Ultimately, the police
registered a case, but without mentioning the six settlers as suspects.
Later Kamala filed
another case in the court in Khagrachari explicitly naming the six settlers.
Since then the OC had
been threatening him to withdraw the case from the court.
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