Boga placed on three-day remand in Hridoy murder case

A court has granted a three-day remand for Wakil Hossain Boga, a listed criminal and an expelled leader of the Swechchhasebak Dal, in the case of the stabbing murder of teenager Mohammad Hridoy, 16, at lane 4 of Wireless Colony in Pahartali under Khulshi police station in the city.

The court of Md Mohidul Islam, Additional Metropolitan Magistrate of Chattogram, granted the remand on Tuesday (10 November). Earlier, on 29 October, the same court had shown Wakil Hossain Boga arrested in the case. He was produced before the court around noon on Tuesday under tight security.

Advocate Md Rayhanul Wazed Chowdhury, Assistant Public Prosecutor of the Chattogram Metropolitan Court, said police had sought a 10-day remand for Wakil Hossain Boga in the murder case of teenager Mohammad Hridoy in Pahartali. After the hearing, the court granted a three-day remand.

Court sources said Hridoy was called out of his house at Wireless Colony in Pahartali on the night of 29 September and stabbed to death.

Police and local people said the incident stemmed from an internal dispute within a local teenage gang. The slain teenager was also a member of the gang. A few days earlier he had quarrelled with some members of the group. Following that quarrel, he was called out of his house to the street at night, where his ear was first cut off and he was then stabbed.

Relatives rescued him from the street in an injured state and took him to hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Two teenage gangs, known as '5G' and '7G', are active in the area. The slain Hridoy sold vegetables from a van and was a member of the '5G' group. Members of the '7G' group killed him.