BANGLADESH NEWS
Limon Hossain, the college student maimed by Rapid Action Battalion on March 23 last year, urged for police protection for himself and his family on Wednesday.
Limon submitted an application to the Rajapur Police Station around noon seeking protection of their lives, officer-in charge of the police station.
Limon is now undergoing treatment at Mokhlesur Rahman Clinic at Barisal city.
Dr Abdur Rowf, a doctor attending Limon at the clinic, advised that Limon needs to undergo an operation on one of his ears which was damaged in the attack on Eid day.
Earlier on Tuesday, Lily Begum, wife of Ibrahim Hawlader who attacked Limon on Eid day, lodged a complaint with Rajapur Police Station saying that Limon and his family members beat her brother Md Forkan to death as he tried to rescue Ibrahim during a brawl on the day.
On Monday afternoon, Limon and his family members were busy in taking family pictures on Saturia-Idurbari road in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi, said Tofazzal Hossain, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Suddenly Ibrahim, a local source of Rapid Action Battalion and also witness No. 17 of the cases lodged by Rab against Limon, appeared on the spot and started hurling abuses at them. Ibrahim also asked them to get off the road and threatened not to return to the village anymore.
At one stage, Ibrahim beat up Limon. As Sumon and Henoara went to save him, Ibrahim also beat them up, Limon's brother and others witnessing the incident said.
Meanwhile Limon managed to call up Rajapur police and asked for help. Police immediately responded to the distress signal and rescued the trio from the wrath of the Rab source.
Henoara was admitted to Rajapur Upazila Health Complex while Limon and Sumon were given first aid, the OC said.
Ibrahim was also rushed to the hospital with minor injury, hospital sources said.
Limon lodged a general diary (GD no 771) Monday night while Ibrahim's wife lodged another GD (No. 785) on Tuesday. Police will investigate both the GDs, the OC added.
Police filed an unnatural death case and sent the body of Forkan to Jhalakathi Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy on Tuesday. Police will take action as per the postmortem report, said Mohidul Islam, acting superintendent of police of Jhalakathi.
"Limon spent last year's Eid in the hospital for the amputation of one of his legs that was wounded by Rab firing on March 23, 2011," Limon's mother Henoara Begum said.
"We thought that all of us will celebrate Eid together at our home this time. But Halim Daroga (investigation officer of police) secretly submitted the final report on August 14 claiming that Rab is innocent without specifying who shot my son in the leg," Limon's mother and complainant of the case, asked.
"The gift from Rab this Eid was an attack by their source while police's gift was to declare Rab as innocent in the case filed for laming my son. So, it has become a sin for us to talk even about Eid," she said.
She further said: "Now the Rab source is trying to implicate us in a murder case, who died of a heart attack about half a kilometer off the place where we were confronted by Ibrahim. How much torture will we have to suffer? When will we be let to go? Is there nothing the state can do for us?"
Rab allegedly shot Limon, who used to work at a brick kiln to pay for his education, in the left leg at his village Saturia in Rajapur upazila on March 23 last year.
The elite force on the same day filed two cases with the local police against Limon and seven others under the Arms Act and another for obstructing official duty, making attempts to murder and injuring Rab personnel.
Charge sheet in first case against Limon and seven others were submitted on April 24, 2011.
Police secretly submitted a charge-sheet against Limon and the other accused July 1 this year in the second case and September 2 has been fixed as the date for hearing the charge-sheet in the case.
On other hand, Henoara on April 10, 2011 lodged a case of attempt to murder, severe injury, maiming against six Rab personnel with the police station.
But police first refused to register the case against Rab but they registered the case later following a court order on April 26.
The report said police have found no evidence and witnesses in favour of the allegation. Magistrate after receiving the police report fixed August 30 for next date of hearing of the case.
Rejecting the police report, the complainant, victim and human rights activists called for 'judicial probe'.
Limon's left leg was cut off from the thigh on Mar 27 at Dhaka National Institute for Traumatolgy and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) Hospital as the tissues were totally damaged due to excessive bleeding caused by delay in treatment after the shooting.
Maimed Limon secured bail from the High Court on May 5 and was released from Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital's prison cell on May 9.
The technical team of Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) in Savar fixed an artificial leg on Limon on August 29 and Limon backed home on October 13, 2011.
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