Al Mamun from USA, May 20, 2026: A child. Only 8 years old. A second-grade student at the local Popular School. At an age when her hands should have been holding colorful pencils and fairy tale books, her lifeless, mutilated body was recovered from a neighbor's toilet bucket and from underneath a bed. This horrifying and brutal incident, which took place in Pallabi, Mirpur, in the capital, has not only destroyed a family but has also thrown a massive question mark at our entire social system and state judicial framework.
Standing in front of the cameras, as the child's father, Abdul Hannan Mollah, wept from the depths of his breaking heart, every word that escaped his mouth was a sharp slap against this state's culture of impunity. When a 55-year-old veteran father screams in front of hundreds of people—"I don't want any justice, you cannot deliver justice!"—one must realize that the backs of the ordinary people of this country are firmly against the wall.
The incident occurred on the morning of Tuesday, May 19, 2026, on the third floor of a five-story building at House 39, Road 7, Block B, Section 11 in Mirpur, Dhaka.
The family of the victim, child Ramisa Akter, had been living in the north-side flat on the third floor of that building for the past 17 years. Ramisa’s father, Abdul Hannan Mollah, works at a recruiting agency, and her mother, Parvin Akter, is a homemaker. Ramisa was the younger of two sisters. Around 10:30 AM, as usual, Ramisa’s mother, Parvin Akter, was getting ready to send her to school and was looking for her. When Ramisa could not be found even after searching the entire five-story building, her mother’s eyes suddenly fell upon the doorstep of the flat directly opposite theirs (the south-side flat). One of Ramisa's sandals was lying there. Seeing the sandal triggered suspicion in the mother's mind. She began banging on the door and screaming. However, there was no response from inside. The mother had no idea that as she knocked on the door, the piece of her heart was being brutally murdered right on the other side.
Later, when the police arrived and broke open the door, they were frozen in shock. Ramisa's mutilated body was recovered from inside. The killers had completely severed her head from her neck. The detached head was found inside a bucket in the toilet, while the rest of her body was hidden under the bed. Police suspect that they were attempting to dismember the body to conceal the crime and completely dispose of the corpse, but were thwarted by the sudden and persistent presence of Ramisa's mother.
Using information technology, the police managed to arrest the main killer and his accomplice within just 7 hours of the incident. Behind this gruesome murder is a couple with a twisted mentality who had moved into that flat as tenants just two months prior.
Primary Accused person Mo. Zakir Hossain alias Sohel Rana (34). Zakir Hossain is a rickshaw mechanic by profession. He and his wife originally hail from Singra in Naogaon.
Preliminary police investigations reveal that Zakir is a man of extremely perverted sexual appetites. He already has a case filed against him in Natore under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Initially, the police suspect that this innocent neighboring child fell victim to Zakir's twisted sexual lust. Fearing that the abuse or the bleeding would be exposed, he suffocated Ramisa to death. Afterward, to destroy evidence, he used a cleaver (da) to sever her head from her body. Following the incident, he cut open the window grill and fled to Fatullah, Narayanganj. Police arrested him there while he was withdrawing money from a bKash shop.
Accomplice (Wife) Swapna Akter (26) is an equal partner and accomplice in this heinous murder. While Ramisa’s mother was repeatedly banging on the door from the outside, Swapna refused to open it from within. She intentionally kept the door locked for a long time to give her killer husband, Zakir Hossain, ample time to cut the window grill and escape. She opened the door only after ensuring her husband had successfully fled. Police detained her right from the crime scene (the flat).
A Father's Statement: The Final Nail in the Coffin of the Justice System
The anguish expressed by Ramisa's father before the media following this incident was not just the weeping of a grieving father; it was the manifestation of a cruel reality. What he said, drawing from his 55 years of life experience, exposes the truth of impunity embedded deep within the veins of this society:
Distrust in Justice: Expressing his utter lack of faith, he explicitly stated that he wants no legal justice. This is because he knows this administration or state cannot deliver it. There is no exemplary record in this country for thousands of such past incidents.
Rage Against Empty Consolation: When the onlookers and neighbors tried to console him with promises of a legal battle, he furiously retorted, "What would you understand of my grief? What kind of dialogues are you staging with me?" He questioned whether anyone held a guarantee that justice would truly be served.
The Cruel Truth of the News Cycle: He mocked our media and public awareness trends, stating that this incident would remain in discussion for 15 days at most. After that, when another major issue or incident hits the country, people will forget Ramisa, and the file will be buried under layers of dust.
The Haunting Emptiness: With a voice choked with tears, he recounted how this 8-year-old innocent child understood nothing but him. She would call him 50 to 100 times a day and make juice for him in the fridge before he returned home. For eight years, he slept with his child cradled to his chest; from now on, who will he sleep with in that empty bed? He added that if the fault lay with him, the state should hang him publicly, but in return, it should give him back his child.
Editor’s Epilogue: An Open Appeal to the New Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Honorable Prime Minister, as you take the helm of a new Bangladesh, the blood of 8-year-old Ramisa smeared across the floor of that third-floor flat in Mirpur reminds us of an ancient, dark tale of lawlessness.
You too are a parent; you too have a daughter. When a father spits on the judicial capacity of the state in front of an open camera and says, "You cannot deliver justice," it must be understood that ordinary people's faith in the law and the administration has hit absolute zero. It is now the responsibility of your government to prove wrong the 15-day timeline set by Ramisa's father and the fears of a "cover-up" he expressed.
Perverted killers like rickshaw mechanic Zakir Hossain and his wife Swapna Akter must face swift, exemplary punishment—such that no other criminal in this country ever dares to lift their eyes toward a child again. Ramisa will never return, but let her father's defiant rage become the catalyst for a radical reformation of the justice system in this new Bangladesh.
