I don’t want justice, you can’t judge: Ramisa’s father’s slap in the face of the state system

❐ Special Correspondent

“I don’t want justice, because you can’t judge. You have no record of justice.” —This sharp cry of a childless father has shaken the entire state apparatus today.

Abdul Hannan Mollah, the father of Ramisa Akhter, a child brutally murdered in the capital’s Pallavi, stood before the media today and presented a skeletal picture of a culture of impunity. His voice was not one of a desire for justice, but rather one of deep regret and hatred.

On Tuesday morning, May 19, little Ramisa was getting ready to go to school. When her mother went out to look for her at around 10:30 in the morning, she still didn’t know that Azrail was lurking in the flat next door. When her mother knocked repeatedly on the door of the flat opposite her, seeing her daughter’s shoes lying in front of it, her ghoul neighbor Sohel Rana was keeping his murderous party going inside.

DMP Additional Commissioner SN Nazrul Islam told a press conference that the neighboring couple, who had rented the house just two months ago, had committed a primitive act of barbarity. According to initial speculation, the child was a victim of perverted sexual desire. Ramisa was strangled to death to hide the signs of torture and bleeding.

Then, to hide the evidence, the child’s head and hands were severed from the body. Sohel Rana, the main killer, helped the murderer by keeping the door closed for a long time so that he could escape.

When Ramisa’s father, Abdul Hannan Molla, faced the media today, his eyes were filled with anger, not tears.

“There is no precedent for your trial. Today, this is being discussed, it will last at most 15 days. Then a new incident will occur and my daughter’s blood will be covered up.”

The police have arrested the murderer Sohel Rana and his wife Swapna in this brutal incident. The police have said that the rape case will be confirmed after the autopsy and chemical report. However, this sensational murder has once again raised questions about our social security and justice system.

This alley in Pallavi is quiet today, but Ramisa’s father’s question—”Can you really judge?”—is piercing the conscience of every person today.