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The government on Monday announced a Tk 1-lakh bounty for giving information leading to the arrest of absconding Mustafizur Rahman, the suspected killer of trade union leader Aminul Islam, reports UNB.
Aminul Islam, 41, president of Savar and Ashulia units of Bangladesh Garment & Industrial Workers Federation, went missing on April 4 last year from Ashulia.
His body was found at a place near Tangail-Myme-nsingh Highway under Ghatail Police Station the following day. He had been working at Bangladesh Centre for Workers' Solidarity, a non-government organisation for workers rights, in Ashulia, as an organiser since 2006.
The Home Ministry urged all to give information to the nearest police station about the suspected killer Mustafizur Rahman, son of Md Shamsher Biswas of village Kadirpara, Sreepur in Magura district. "The information provider will be given Tk one lakh and his or her identity will be kept secret," said a Home Ministry official.
Aminul's death raised concerns among different rights groups, both at home and abroad.
Even 11 trade associations in different sectors of the European Union (EU), the US and Canada have expressed concerns through letters to Bangladeshi Ambassador in the US, and the Prime Minister's Office in Bangladesh, ministers for commerce and labour, and the heads of prominent business bodies concerned last year.
The trade bodies in their letters demanded a comprehensive, impartial and swift investigation into Aminul's death to identify the perpetrators and the circumstances of this incident and holding accountable any person or persons found guilty of wrongdoing in this connection.
Family members of Aminul Islam alleged the law enforcing agencies tortured him to death and dumped the body in a far away place so that it remains unidentified.