Adabor SI sent to jail

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Ratan Kumar, a sub-inspector of Adabor Police Station, to jail in a case filed for alleged sexual harassment of a private university student.

He was on duty as a SI of Adabor Police Station in the city's Mohammadpur area when the incident occurred on January 31.

The police official was sent to jail after he surrendered before the court around 10:00am yesterday.

Judge Md Salehuddin Ahmed of the Fourth Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression passed the order, rejecting Ratan's bail petition.

On February 16, the same court issued an arrest warrant for SI Ratan in the case.

According to the case statement, Ratan and two other policemen stopped a rickshaw carrying a student of ASA University around 3:00pm on January 31 while she was on the way to a bookstore on Nurjahan Road.

The policemen confined her to an electronics shop in Mohammadpur and harassed her for about 45 minutes, accusing her of being a yaba peddler.

The following day, the authorities suspended Ratan.

Later, the victim lodged a case against the policeman with the court for his alleged involvement in the incident.

The court then ordered a judicial inquiry, asking the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court to assign a magistrate to conduct the inquiry within seven workdays.

On February 9, Metropolitan Magistrate Md Imdadul Haque recorded statements of five people, including the victim, and initially found the allegation against Ratan to be true.