Police arrested three class IX students of Ataikula High School in Ataikula upazila on Sunday for allegedly killing a classmate, reports UNB.
The arrestees are Tutul, Shaon and Belal.
Officer-in-charge of Ataikula Police Station Nure Alam Siddiqui said the trio called their classmate Shakil
Akhter, son of Belal Hossain of Modhupur village in Ataikula upazila, out of his house at the village on Friday night.
Later, they gouged out his eyeballs and killed him by strangulation.
On Saturday noon, police recovered the body of Shakil from a grove adjacent to his house.
Deceased Shakil’s father filed a case against his three classmates mentioned above in this connection on Saturday night.
Following the filing of the case, police conducted a drive in the area from Saturday midnight till yesterday morning and arrested the three accused
schoolboys. It was known during the primary investigation that Shakil might have been killed over a love affair he had with a classmate, added the OC.