BANGLADESH NEWS
The High Court has ordered eight police officials to explain their role in abusing a girl on Dhaka magistrate's court premises on Tuesday.
The six are: Harun-or-Rashid, a deputy police commissioner (Lalbagh zone); Rajib Al Masud, an assistant police commissioner; Salauddin Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station; four sub-inspectors – Zaman, Jahangir, Amir Afzal Biplab and Nuruzzaman Sarker; and the president of police club of Dhaka District Judges’ Court area.
According to the suo moto rule issued on Wednesday, the officials will have to appear before the court by 10:30am on June 6 to explain their role.
The HC also directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to turn in a report within 48 hours containing the details of the responsible police officers and what steps were taken against them in this connection.
It sought a government explanation within two weeks as to why a legal action should not be ordered against officials responsible for the incident.
A division bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim came up with the order and rule following the news items published in different newspapers on Wednesday on the incident.
Advocate AKM Saifuddin Ahmed placed the news items to the notice of the judges for taking action against the responsible personnel.
On Tuesday, two sub-inspectors of Kotwali Police Station assaulted and harassed a teenaged girl, her father and mother on the very premises of Dhaka magistrate's court.
The two cops in the nearby Police Club torched the 15-year-old girl allegedly for protesting against the police claim of her father's motorbike being a stolen one.
After the assault, when she was talking to newsmen about her ordeal, police charged truncheons on her and beat up six journalists and four lawyers.
They then picked up the girl, her father, mother and two lawyers and took them to Kotwali Police Station for no apparent reason.
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