Three-time councillor of Ward No. 4 of the Rangpur City Corporation and Parshuram Thana Awami League President Haradhon Roy was beaten to death by the anti-government protesters around 1pm on August 4, 2024.
He was also the general secretary of Rangpur Metropolitan Puja Udjapon Parishad.
The anarchistsโmostly from the BNP and Jamaat-Shibirโtied an internet cable around his neck and his body with a rope and dragged him with a truck while celebrating it.
They took the body to the Rangpur City Corporation area to hang it from the overbridge. Failing to do so, they left the lifeless body on the street.
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Later, around 7 pm, City Mayor Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa and other councillors recovered the body and sent it to the Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue.
When the attackers hit Haradhon, they also tied up his driver, Komol alias Sobuj, and beat him to death.
Police said they did not go to the spot because they did not want more dead bodies, said Deputy Commissioner (Crime) Abu Maruf Hossain, adding that the protesters had targeted the police and the Awami League members.
City Mayor Mostafizur Rahman said that he called the OC and the top officials of the city police. โThey said they can’t go unless the situation improves,โ he told journalists.
Haradhon’s wife, Krishna Rani, said he was a popular person. โPeople elected him repeatedly because of his great popularity in the area. We demand justice for those who committed this brutal murder,” she said.
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Haradhon left behind a 10-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter.
On October 2, Kanika Rani filed a case over the double murder against 400-500 unidentified people.
But the case has seen no progress, as the Jamaat-controlled interim government awarded amnesty for the criminals who were involved in murders, arson, and looting from July 15 to August 8.
Senior journalist Pulack Ghatak recollected the double murder recently while sharing his views on the targeted killings of Awami League members and the police in July-August last year.
He lamented the protestersโ labelling of the anarchy as a revolution. โIt was the duty of the administration and the police to open fire at the anarchists,โ he said, adding that the media did not report Haradhonโs death with due importance.
The journalist mentioned that the protesters hanged two policemen in Jatrabari on July 18-19. They also killed 17 police officers at the Enayetpur police station on August 4. They were beaten and hacked to death, their bodies burned and dumped in the nearby pond.
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Awami League President and five-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently said that the anti-government protesters had killed over 1,000 party members and around the same number of police and Ansar members since last year.
Moreover, around 30 leaders and activists died in police and prison custody in the last 10 months.
She also criticised the interim government for declaring impunity for the murders, and the farcical trial at the International Crimes Tribunal, when many protesters had already admitted to having killed the police and the Awami League members and set fire to government establishments and police stations.
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