Court issues arrest order for Prothom Alo editor, 9 others over student’s death

Staff Reporter: A Dhaka court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the Bangla daily Prothom Alo’s Editor Matiur Rahman, Associate Editor Anisul Hoque and eight others over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Abrar Rahat, who was dead after being electrocuted in a programme of the newspaper’s youth magazine Kishor Alo in the capital.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaisarul Islam passed the order on after accepting a report submitted by Mohammadpur police.
According to Omar Faruk Asif, the lawyer for the plaintiffs, the report submitted by Mohammadpur Police Station’s Inspector Abdul Alim stated that Abrar’s death resulted from the negligence of the event’s organiser Kishor Alo.
Rahat’s father Md Mujibur Rahman filed a case with Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Nov 6 alleging that negligence on part of the organisers caused his son’s death.