The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The main accused of Nayatola schoolboys murder case, Ranju Sardar and Koshai Liton, yesterday narrated to newsmen how they brutally killed two minor boys in the city two months ago.

The Detective Branch of Police arrested Ranju, a listed criminal, from Nayatola railgate area at midnight on June 26 when he and his associates were preparing to commit mugging. On his confessional statement police arrested Liton from east Nayatola.

In an arranged press briefing at the DB Headquarters in the afternoon Ranju, 30, confessing his guilt told reporters that he and his accomplice Liton

were smoking ganja in a tin-shed abandoned house at 114 Nayatola at noon on April 29. At that time Jewel and Biplob of the same locality peeped through the window and saw them. They forcibly took the boys into the house. They beat the boys up and violated them.

Ranju said the boys knew them well. Thinking they would expose their misdeeds, they knifed the boys to death and left the place.

The criminals stabbed to death schoolboys, Jewel and Biplab and left their bodies to rot in the abandoned house.

On May 5 police recovered the decomposed bodies of Jewel, 9, son of rickshaw-puller Alaluddin, and Biplab, 7, son of private car driver Siddique Sheikh, of Meerertek under Ramna Police Station. The boys were students of class I in an NGO-run school at Nayatola.

Police said the bodies bore stab injuries in the chest, abdomen and in the back.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Naim Ahmad, said police arrested the culprits by applying criminal psychological analysis in the clueless case.