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| Court orders arrest of 4 policemen |
| 2010-09-23 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against the then Officer-in-charge (OC) Mahbubur Rahman of Ramna Police Station and three other police officials for implicating and torturing a Dhaka University student for "attempting to kill" Prof Humayun Azad. The three other officials are sub-inspectors Rezaul Karim and Naser Ali of Ramna cop shoppe and Sergeant Anwar Hossain who was in charge of Nilkhet police box. Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan Talukder passed the order after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police submitted a report. The court also directed the OC of Ramna cop shoppe to submit a report by October 26 on execution of arrest warrants against the then OC and three other accused. Ehsan Uddin Chowdhury, CID inspector and investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the probe reports on Tuesday saying that the charges brought against the four police officials were primarily proved and they should be brought to justice. But the IO excluded detained former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar from the charge finding no connection of him. A gang of myrmidons attacked Prof Humayun Azad in front of Bangla Academy when he was on his way back home on February 27, 2004 leaving him seriously injured. Later on February 28, police jugged Mohammad Abu Abbas Bhuiyan, Mass Education Affairs' secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League central committee for attacking Humayun Azad. Later, he was remanded and taken to Ramna cop shoppe where the police tortured him for giving confessional statement. But police pressed charges against Jama'atul Mujahedin Bangladesh members in the case while dropping Abbas' name from the charge sheet on November 15 of 2007 after a probe. After getting bail from the court, Abbas, also a student of Political Science of Dhaka University, filed the case with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on March 5 of 2008 accusing Babar, Mahbubur Rahman and three other police officials for torturing. After the hearing, the court directed detective branch (DB) of police to submit a report after an investigation. But DB had earlier submitted a final report finding no evidence about the torture on the victim. Later on July 23 last year, the court had directed CID to probe the matter and submit a report on it. The CID investigated the matter and recorded statements of several people including some accused who were in Ramna cop shoppe and found their involvement in torturing Abbas. |
| Posted by:Fred |