Four-year-old child killed by pumping air into rectum in Mirpur

Wailing, Ayesha Begum said, "I was spending days with great hardship with my two sons. I used to go to work leaving my younger son with my mother Chandra Banu and elder son Jihad. How cruelly my little child was killed, I demand justice for this." The victim's maternal grandmother Chandra Banu said, my daughter is struggling a lot with two sons. She even fed her sons by begging. Where is that treasure of her heart gone today.

Four-year-old child Abu Bakkar Siddique has been allegedly killed by pumping air into his rectum using a motorcycle wash machine. This heartbreaking and inhumane incident took place on Tuesday in the capital's Mirpur Bauniabad area. In this incident, the victim's mother Ayesha Begum filed a murder case against 4 people at Pallabi Police Station. Raju (20), Sujan (36), a teenager and an unidentified person have been accused in the case. Child Abu Bakkar lived in the Porabasti area of Mirpur Bauniabad with his 11-year-old elder brother Jihad and mother.

He was a student of the children's class at 'Phulkali-7' ECD Centre run by Breaking the Silence. Mother Ayesha Begum works in a garment factory. Father Md Javed is a bus driver. He does not live with his wife. Jihad works at Md Ratul and Sujan's Bismillah Honda Garage in the Beribad area. On the day of the incident, around 3 pm, Abu Bakkar went to the garage with his elder brother.

According to the case statement and family description, at that time, after sending Jihad to bring bread and bananas, the accused pumped air into child Abu Bakkar's rectum using the motorcycle cleaning pipe. When Jihad came back, he saw blood coming out of his brother's rectum, and he was vomiting. When Jihad asked the present teenager, Raju and Sujan, they admitted the incident. They said Abu Bakkar himself pumped air into his rectum using the air machine. At this time, Ratul, another owner of the garage, was not present.

Later, when Jihad came home and told everyone about the incident, relatives and neighbors took Abu Bakkar first to a clinic in Mirpur and then to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead. Locals caught the accused teenager and handed him over to the police. The others are absconding. On Wednesday morning, visiting Pallabi Police Station, Abu Bakkar's mother was seen sitting on the stairs crying with her son Jihad. Abu Bakkar's body had not arrived from the hospital by then.

Pallabi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Nazrul Islam said the accused teenager has been produced in court. Being a child, his trial will be under the Children Act. The other accused are absconding. The OC said preliminary investigation has found evidence of murder by pumping air into the rectum. It can be more certain when the chargesheet and autopsy report arrive. Nazrul Islam further said although there were no CCTV cameras at the scene, police have collected some relevant video footage from surrounding CCTV cameras. Efforts are now underway to arrest the remaining accused.

Source: Samakal