The key suspect in a case filed over the death of Taslima Begum Renu who was lynched by a mob in Badda, has named a few others who were involved.

Taslima who has gone to the school for her son’s admission was beaten to death by a mob on the false suspicion of being a child lifter.

Hridoy, who is the key suspected, divulged the names of seven to eight people during questioning on Wednesday (Jul 24).

 “We are not publishing the names yet for the investigation. We are trying to arrest them,” said Detective Branch of Police Additional Commissioner Abdul Baten.

“Hridoy [a grocer by profession] was selling vegetables nearby the day of the incident. Renu went inside the school to enquire about her son’s admission when a guardian asked for her identity,” he said.

He added that at one point, the guardian addressed Renu as a child-lifter and that’s when he rushed to the scene.

“Around 10-15 people had already gathered there by then and the school authorities locked Renu in a room.”

Baten said that the crowd grew as word of a child lifter spread and around 15 people forced themselves into the school, broke the door and dragged Renu outside.

“We are yet to find specific allegations of negligence against the school authorities. And it’s also not true that police reached the scene after 40 minutes.

“The immediately reached the scene and tried to disperse the crowd but it’s impossible for four or five policemen to control thousands,” he added.

Police arrested Hridoy on Tuesday (Jul 23) around 8: 30 from Narayanganj’s Bhulta.

According to Baten he went into hiding when he heard that police were looking from him.

Taslima Begum Renu, the 42-year-old mother of two from Mohakhali in the capital, was beaten to death by the mob on Saturday (Jul 20) at the premises of a school.

Guardians took her to the headmaster’s room for questioning on suspicion that she was a kidnapper when she had gone to the school at North Badda.

Angry locals, who gathered outside on hearing that “a child abductor has been caught”, later snatched her away and lynched her, according to law enforcers.

Police said they responded immediately but the woman died before they arrived.

The victim’s family started a case over the death accusing 400 to 500 unidentified people.