SI Ratan sent to jail on surrender

A Dhaka court today 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 sub-Inspector 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.

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

On February 16, the same court issued arrest warrant against SI Ratan for the alleged sexual harassment.

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

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 SI Ratan.

Later, the victim filed a case against the policemen with the court.