Two members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) have received Inspector General of Police (IGP) Award for their outstanding performance in investigation into the Rajon murder case.

The award recipients are DB inspector Suronjit Talukder, who was investigation officer of the murder case, and assistant commissioner Gopal Chakrabarty, reported UNB.

IGP AKM Shahidul Haque handed over the awards to them at a function on Thursday.

On 8 November last year, a Sylhet court sentenced four people to death, one to life term imprisonment, three others to seven years’ jail and two others to one year’s imprisonment each in the case filed for torturing 13-year-old boy Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon to death over a ‘theft’ at Sundar Ali Market in Kumargaon area of the city on 8 July.