Muggers did the horrendous crime

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Two murderers who sexually abused and killed two schoolboys in the capital’s Noyatola area in April, yesterday spoke to the media for the first time about how they committed the gruesome killings while under influence of drugs.

At a news conference held at the Detective Branch (DB) of police in the city, Ronju Sarder and Liton, both in their 30s, described how they killed the two boys while smoking cannabis in an abandoned house in Noyatola.

The two men also said they sexually abused other young boys before.

Ronju Sarder said on the day of the crime, he and Liton were smoking cannabis when they saw the two young boys walking near their den. They lured the two boys into the abandoned house.

“We raped Biplob first. Then we stabbed him to death because he was screaming loudly. After Biplob we raped Jewel and stabbed him to death as well so that there would be no witness left to the whole matter,” Ronju said.

“We then left their bodies in the abandoned house and fled the area,” he added.

Liton however told the media that they did not intend to murder the boys. He blamed the crime on the ‘influence of cannabis they were smoking’.

“We did not know these boys personally and they did not know us. We did not want to kill them. But we had a knife in our possession at the time and carried out the crimes under the influence of cannabis,” he said.

Ramna police recovered the decomposed bodies of Jewel, son of a rickshaw-puller Alaluddin, and Biplob, son of a chauffeur Siddique Sheikh, three days after the killing.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) of DB Nasiruddin Khan, leader of the investigation team, told the media, “We were clueless about the motive behind the brutal killings and so started investigating the case. We talked to local residents and prepared a list of five suspected child abusers.”

“We arrested three of them and based on information retrieved from them we arrested Ronju on June 25 and Liton on June 27 from Moghbazar area. Both were known in the area as muggers,” he said.

During interrogation, both men admitted to the killings and also confessed that they were involved in other criminal activities in the area, including muggings.

Biplob’s mother Bilkis Begum came to the DB office yesterday to see her son’s killers.

Breaking down in tears, Bilkis told The Daily Star that she wanted exemplary punishment for her son’s killers. She said she did not want any other mother to lose her innocent children to the hands of such cruel people.

Bilkis also told the media that the two murderers repeatedly threatened her and Jewel’s parents over the phone, causing Jewel’s parents to flee the area they lived in a month and a half ago.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Naim Ahmed also held the local people responsible for the brutal murders, saying, “Although the abandoned house was regularly used by the criminals, none of the local residents showed any social responsibility in informing the matter to police or to any other authority.”

“Most of the slum children remain vulnerable and the criminals are always on the lookout for chances,” the DMP commissioner said.

“Parents and guardians have to be more careful about the safety of their children,” he said.

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