Sylhet: Police on Sunday pressed charges against 13 people in the case filed over the gruesome murder of teenage boy Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon in Kumargaon area of Sylhet on 8 July.

Detective Branch (DB) Inspector of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Surinjit Talukdar submitted the charge-sheet with Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate court in the afternoon.

On 8 July, 13-year-old boy Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, son of Sheikh Azizur Rahman of Badeali village in Sadar upazila, was brutally tortured to death over a theft at Sundar Ali Market in Kumargaon area of the city.

The killers themselves took the video footage of the incident.

The video clip went viral on social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site Youtube which triggered a widespread outcry.

Twelve people who were arrested reportedly made their ‘confessional’ statements separately to their involvement in the incident of Rajon murder.

Another accused Quamrul Islam, 24, brother of main accused Muhit Alam, fled to Saudi Arabia after the incident where he was held by local Bangladeshis and then handed over to Jeddah police.