PP Babu Sona goes missing

Staff Correspondent, Rangpur: Rathish Chandra Bhowmik known as Babu Sona, a public prosecutor (PP) of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi and Khadem Rahmat Ali murder cases, remained traceless since Friday morning.

Rathish Chandra had been missing since yesterday morning, confirmed his younger brother Sushanto Bhowmik Subol and Kotwali Police Station.

Rathish Chandra, 55, went missing 12 days after the verdict of Khadem Rahmat Ali murder case, in which seven JMB men were awarded death sentence.

He went out of his house wearing Panjabi and pajama around 6.00am yesterday and since then he remained missing, Sushanto Bhowmik said adding that his mobile phone has been switched off.

They could not reach his whereabouts although they searched him at different places. They informed Kotwali Police Station about his disappearance last night, he said.

Confirming the matter, Babul Mia, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station, said police have started working to trace the whereabouts of Rathish Chandra soon after they came to know about the incident.

Rathish Chandra was the public prosecutor of Japanese National Kunio Hoshi and Khadem Rahmat Ali, who were killed in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur on October 3 and November 10 in 2015 respectively.

The special judge court of Rangpur sentenced five members of militant Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh to death in Japanese national Kunio Hoshi murder case on February 28 last year while the same court convicted seven JMB militants to death for killing Khadem Rahmat Ali on March 18 this year.


risingbd/Rangpur/March 31, 2018/Nazrul Mridha/AI