8 Ctg police personnel sued for ‘falsely implicating’ 4 in narcotics case

Eight police personnel of Bayezid Police Station were sued for their alleged involvement in "falsely implicating" four persons in a narcotics case "after failing to extort money" from them in Chattogram's Bayezid area.

Abdul Waheed, a land broker by profession, filed the case today accusing at least nine people with the court of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Mohiuddin Murad, his lawyer Advocate Alamgir Hossain said.

An inspector (investigation), two sub-inspectors, three assistant sub-inspectors, two constables of the station and a police informant have been made accused in the case.

Taking the case into cognizance, the court ordered Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) to investigate it and submit a report by October 1.

Quoting the case statements, advocate Alamgir said Abdul Waheed and three others were meeting over a land deal issue at Jamal Colony of Muradnagar under Bayezid police station on the night of July 13.

Suddenly, some plainclothes men appeared on the spot, detained the four and took them to the police station. Police told the four that they came to the spot after someone called 999, the case statement said.

At the station, police allegedly demanded Tk 2 lakh from each to set them free or threatened to implicate them in a yaba case, said the advocate.

As they refused to give the money, police filed a yaba case saying 80 yaba pills were recovered from their possession, the lawyer alleged.

Abdul Waheed told our Chattogram correspondent, "Police mentioned in the case that 25 yaba pills were recovered from me and they had produced us before a court in the case after we refused to pay the money. After languishing in jail for 23-days, we finally got bail a few days ago."

The Daily Star correspondent called the inspector for his version but he did not pick up despite repeated attempts.