Bogra Torture
Probe finds 5 cops guilty
Staff Correspondent, Bogra
A three-member inquiry committee accused five police officials for torturing a suspected thief at Bogra Sadar police station (PS) in its report submitted on Tuesday. They are -- officer-in-charge (OC) Shamsul Haque, SIs Monjur Rahman, Abdul Karim and Shariful Islam (2) and constable Nurul Islam. The committee, led by an additional police super, also recommended for taking punitive action against SI Karim for his negligence in duty and filing divisional cases against the other four. SI Karim might be discharged from service if the report is implemented, sources said. On January 27, all the accused were suspended after a primary investigation conducted by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Khan Sayeed Hasan into the police brutality following the publication of a photograph in The Daily Star the day before. The OC was closed to the DIG range office of Rajshahi while the other four were closed to Bogra Police Lines. The police authority also formed an inquiry committee and asked them to submit the report by January 30. A two-tola gold necklace was found from Ratan Kumar, who police tortured after hanging from the ceiling at Sadar Police Station on January 25, without showing him arrested as a suspect in a 25-tola gold theft case. He later confessed his involvement with the crime.
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