10th graders kill 9th grader for ransom, 3 held

The body of a class IX student, who was allegedly killed by the students of class X of a high school in Comilla, has been recovered from the school’s septic tank on Thursday, five days after he went missing.

The deceased was identified as Jahid Hasan, 14, a student of Dulalpur Chandramukhi High School and son of Aktaruzzaman.

Rasul Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Homna Police Station, said after receiving a call from someone, Jahid came out from his house on Friday and went missing.

Victim’s father filed a general diary with Home Police Station the following day.

In the meantime, victim’s uncle received a text message and a phone call, demanding Tk 50,000 as ransom.

Tracking the phone call, police detained three 10th grader students – Emdadul Haque, Jihadul Islam, Khairul Alam - of the same school on Wednesday morning.

During interrogation, they confessed their guilt that Jahid was strangled to death at a house in Dulalpur Bazaar and dumped his body at the septic tank of their school, the OC said.

Later, police recovered the body around 2:00 am.

The body was sent to Comilla Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. 

Victim’s father filed a murder case Thursday morning.

Source: unb