KHUJAND, January 17, 2015, Asia-Plus — Director of bazaar in the Bobojonghafourov district and the bazaar guards have beaten an orphaned boy to death for theft of foods and 380 somoni.
According to the Interior Ministry’s office for Sughd, the Nazari Nek bazaar director Rustam Jourayev and the bazaar guard chief Ahliddin Fayziyev detained two inmates of the Chkalovsk boarding school on the bazaar’s territory in the night of January 15. The teenagers reportedly stole food products and 380 somoni.
“The men severely beat the teenagers and one of them, who had neither father nor mother, died later in hospital,” Akbar Sharipov, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry’s office in Sughd, said, noting that the second teenager is still in hospital.
According to him, criminal proceedings have been instituted against the bazaar director, the bazaar guard chief and one of the bazaar guards under the provisions of Article 110 (3) of Tajikistan’s Penal Code — intentional infliction of serious bodily injury; an investigation is under way.
