Teenage college student Limon Hossain, who lost his left leg, shot at by the Rapid Action Battalion on March 23, left the hospital prison cell in Barisal Monday afternoon on six month's ad-interim bail granted by the High Court in the capital.
He has been in the prison for 48 days ever since he was arrested soon after he was shot at by RAB though he had committed no offence.
Limon's parents took him from the prison cell at the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal to the Bed No- 1 of the Orthopaedic Ward at 5 PM.
An emotional scene overtook the hospital as Limon left the prison cell with his parents.
His parents thanked the media, human rights and legal aid activists for standing beside the needy family in the quest for justice.
Everyone, even those who never saw him, felt so involved with Limon as if they all know him.
Limon became the poster boy of human rights violation in the name of curbing crimes.
They read the story of Limon in national dailies.
The TV channels also showed how the dream of the boy who worked in his spare time to support the family and the education expenses of two elder sibling as well himself was shattered.
An HSC examinee Limon worked at a brick kiln in spare time to support the family.
The incident sent shock waves across the nation.
It drew widespread criticism of flawed enforcement of the law with the media and the rights bodies protesting against recurrence of human rights violation in the name of crime busting.
RAB shot him on his left leg as he was on his way to bring the family's cattle home at Saturia, a village in Jhalakathi, on March 23.
His leg had to be amputated, crippling him for life.
On the same day RAB filed two ante-dated criminal cases(GR-45 and 46), accusing Limon and seven others of illegally possessing arms and ammunition, obstructing the law enforcers from discharging their duty and attempting to kill them during a 'shoot-out'.
The hospital referred Limon to the National Institute of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation in Dhaka for better treatment.
The High Court granted him the bail on Thursday.
SBMCH director Dr Abdur Rashid, who led the three-member medical board for Limon, told New Age Limon needed 'long term specialised medical care and treatment.
A prosthetic leg, Limon needs, is not available at SBMCH, he said.
That is why Limon has been referred to NITOR in Dhaka again for the treatment.
He said he Limon was provided with an ambulance and other support for his immediate transfer to Dhaka so that he could get admission into NITOR on Tuesday.
Limon's mother demanded free fair speedy investigation into the case she had filed against six RAB personnel for maiming her son.
She demanded immediate arrest of the offenders.
The family demanded withdrawal of false cases against Limon lodged by RAB branding him as an armed terrorist.
There has been nationwide demand asking the government to provide Limon a job.
Advocate Nashimul Hasan, who pleaded for Limon before a Jhalakathi court said that Tapan Sarkar and Nurul Islam, two messengers of Ain O Shalish Kendra arraived at Jhalakathi Monday morning with attested copies of the High Court's bail order.
On Monday the Jhalakathi District Judge's Court was scheduled to hear Limon's bail application.
The District judge Faruk Ahmed granted the plea of the lawyers pleading for Limon to treat the application as 'not pressed' in the wake of the superior court granting the bail.
The lawyers placed the certified copy of the bail before the court of Jhalakathi chief judicial magistrate with a request for executing the superior court's order.
Reza Tarek Ahmed, CJM Jhalakathi, spoke to the concerned High Court officials in Dhaka to verify the authentication of the certified copy of the bail order, and directed Jhalakathi District Prison authorities to release Limon at 2 PM securing a bail bond of Tk 20,000.
Jhalakathi District Jail authourities received the court order at 3 PM and sent a special messenger to deliver it to Barisal Central Jail authorities for releasing Limon on bail from the hospital prison cell in Barisal.
Md. Sagir Mia, senior jail superintendent of Barisal Central Jail, said his office received the court order at 4 PM.
He said he sent the order to hospital prison cell at 4.30 Pm, after completing official formalities, and Limon was released from there at about 5 PM.
The police submitted the charge-sheet in the case GR-45 under the arms act with the judicial magistrate's court in Jhalakathi, a day after the court directed them to record the case filed by Limon's mother Henoara Begum against six RAB personnel for shooting her son on April 26.
On May 2, the Jhalakathi senior judicial magistrate court granted bail to Limon in the attempt to murder case no. GR-46 on a bond of Tk 10,000.
Limon was discharged from NITOR Hospital in Dhaka and brought to Jhalakathi on May 3 by the police for his production in court in the case in which the charge sheet has been submitted.
Jhalakathi senior judicial magistrate Nusrat Jahan sent Limon to Jhalakahti jail and asked the prison authorities to inform the court about his treatment and jail authority sent him to prison cell of SBMCH on May 4.
Source: New Age