Cop Attack on Shooters
Judicial probe begins Nov 6
Court Correspondent
The judicial enquiry of the attempted murder case against five police personnel filed by the National Shooting Federation for attacking three shooters, including the Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Asif Hossain Khan on October 2, will begin on November 6.Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Shafiq Anwar yesterday set the date and issued summons upon the complainant and others to appear before the court on the fixed date. Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mohammad Mojibul Haq ordered the judicial probe into the matter after Range Officer AFM Sahab Uddin Ahmed filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka on October 8. The accused are: Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Police Obaidur Rahman Khan, Officer-in-charge (OC) of Gulshan Police Station Mahbub Alam Khan, sub-inspectors Jasim Uddin and Faisal Zaman and driver to the deputy inspector general (DIG) of Special Branch Havildar Abdul Khaleq. In his complaint, Sahab Uddin mentioned that Zumman Ali, one of the security guards of National Shooting Federation, asked the chauffeur of DIG Dr Sadiqur Rahman to park the four-wheel-drive vehicle to another place when the driver was attempting to park it in front of the federation complex at 12:15pm. But Havildar Khaleq became angry with the guard and was locked in an argument with him, which soon turned into a scuffle. Other guards and employees of the complex came out and joined the confrontation while the chauffeur asked the on-duty patrol police of the area for help. A three-member police patrol team led by Sub-inspector Jasim rushed to the spot with North Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Obaidur Rahman Khan, Assistant Commissioner Zannatul Hasan and OC of Gulshan Police Station Mahbub Alam Khan. As per direction of the DC and the OC, the policemen entered the complex and started beating up whomever they found before them. Around 30 shooters, who were practising inside, came out hearing the commotion and fell victim to the indiscriminate beating. Among them, internationally acclaimed shooter Asif, who was preparing for the Asian Games to be held in Doha in December, and another shooter Shoebuzzaman were seriously injured, the complainant said. Later, police arrested five, including the shooters and took them to Gulshan Police Station where they were beaten up again before sending them to a court charging them with assaults.
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