The family of Touhidul Islam, a leader of Juba Dal, the youth front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, did not file any case until Sunday over his death on Friday in the custody of Army-led joint forces in Cumilla.
The custodial death triggered widespread protests and criticism among the political parties and rights bodies as well as people from all walks of life.
Cumilla鈥檚 Kotwali police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Mohinul Islam said on Sunday that they were ready to record any case if brought by the family. 鈥楤ut, the family has yet to file any such complaint.鈥�
鈥榃e have been in talks with the security forces about filing any case over my brother鈥檚 death. We will file the case within two or three days,鈥� 抖阴精品 correspondent in Cumilla reported on Sunday, quoting the victim鈥檚 elder brother Abul Kalam Azad as saying.
The army-led joint forces detained 40-year-old Touhidul from his house in Cumilla city at about 3:00am on Friday and physicians at Cumilla Medical College Hospital declared him dead at about 12:30pm on the day when police took him to the hospital, the police and the victim鈥檚 family members said.
According to the police and the victim鈥檚 family, Touhidul is the convener of Adarsha Sadar Upazila鈥檚 Panchthubi union unit of Juba Dal.
He used to work at the Chattogram RKU Company Limited and came to his village home to attend the qul khwani of his father.
Rights group Odhikar in a statement on Sunday condemned and protested at the custodial death.
Odhikar said that 170 extrajudicial killings were reported in so-called torture by law enforcement agencies between October 10, 2001 and October 28, 2006.
A total of 46 extrajudicial killings were reported from October 29, 2006 to January 5, 2009 during the caretaker government, 182 were killed from January 6, 2009 to August 5, 2024, according to Odhikar.
A total of eight people were killed between August 9, 2024 and December 31, 2024 during the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, the Odhikar statement added.
