DHAKA, Sept 23, 2024 (BSS) – A video widespread on the social media showed a youth was thrown from a police APC onto the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar with his arms spread out and his legs folded.

The video showed a police officer from inside the APC opened the left door, and another officer opened the top cover and dragged the youth out, throwing him onto the road in an inhuman and brutal manner.

At that time, the youth was still alive and breathing. When he was thrown from the APC, his arms splayed out, and one of his legs was trapped under the APC’s wheel.

The youth was identified as Shaikh As-ha-bul Yamin, the first student to be killed on July 18 in the student-people movement on the outskirt of the capital.

Then a police officer got out of the APC, grabbed Yamin by the arm, and dragged him to the middle of the highway while two more police officers got out and dragged him from the main road to the road divider, then threw him over the divider onto the service lane.

The eyewitnesses of the brutality said such act of the law enforcement agency members has undermined the humanity and is an extreme disrespect to the human rights. 

According to Yamin’s family sources, 23-year-old Yamin was a fourth-year student of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in the capital’s Mirpur area.

Yamin’s (maternal) uncle Md Abdullah Al Moon Qadir told BSS that Yamin was shot dead by police while he was returning home after offering zohr prayers at a mosque in Savar. 

After killing Yamin, he said, policemen put his body on the APC and threw the body from the APC onto the road in an inhuman manner to create panic among the protesters.

Yamin was only son of Md Mohiuddin and Nasrin Sultana. 

Hailed from Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district, he had been residing in the Bank Town residential area in Savar with his family. His father Md Mohiuddin was a former banker.
Md Abdullah Al Moon Qadir said that they could not bury Yamin’s body at their family graveyard due to obstruction from local Awami League leaders. Even police didn’t allow them to take the body to the village home in Kushtia.

Noting that hospital authority released the body without issuing the death certificate, he said senior officials of police of Dhaka and Savar ranges intimidated Yamin’s family members not to file case over the incident.

Qadir also said that local Awami League leader Mizanur Rahman Mizan obstructed Yamin’s family to bury him at Talbag graveyard in Savar. Later, they buried Yamin at the Bank Town graveyard there.

He said they filed a case with the prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal on September 22 seeking justice.