Stand for Justice

Protests on for justice over Rifat murder: Several thousand people from all walks of life staged a peaceful demonstration in Barguna on Saturday demanding justice and immediate arrest of main suspects in the murder of Rifat Sharif. Rifat was hacked to death in public in the district headquarters on June 26 in front of his wife Ayesha Siddiqua. The couple were married two months ago. The protestors feared that the issue of killing might get politicised due to connections of the suspects with the ruling party, so they urged the government to make sure that justice was done. The protestors brought out a procession that paraded through the main streets of the town.  The police officials, meanwhile, claimed the motive of the killing was ‘personal’ but said they continued operations in search of the suspects named in the First Information Report lodged by Rifat’s father Abdul Halim Dulal Sharif. The police and Rapid Action Battalion, meanwhile, arrested two more suspects in con