Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
Mizanur Rahman, Additional Commissioner (Crime & Ops ) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, has been withdrawn from his workplace on charge of forcefully marrying a woman and torturing her by abusing power.
Mizanur, an officer to the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG), came under fire as the investigators found the primary evidence of the complaint against him reported in the media recently, Police Headquarters sources said.
The investigators also took Mizan under extra watch after attaching him to the Police Headquarters for the sake of proper investigation.
They also claimed that the DIG might face music after submission of full probe report as per the direction of the government.The report will be submitted in a very short time after Police Week-2018, they added. Meanwhile, Mizanur Rahman was attached to Police Headquarters on Tuesday afternoon following the recent media report, said Soheli Ferdaus, Assistant Inspector General (Media and Public Relations) of PHQs.
The Home Ministry has removed Mizanur Rahman from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police over allegations of abducting a woman and later marrying her forcefully, she said.
“His removal from the DMP is a part of proper investigation, the AIG added. The police official, however, did not say anything more about Mizan’s withdrawal.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told the media on Tuesday about the opening of an inquiry. “No-one is above the law. Whoever breaks it will face consequences.”
The minister said also on Monday that a probe committee would be formed to investigate the allegations against him.
“We are now busy with police week programmes… I will try to talk to the IGP tomorrow [Tuesday] about the allegation,” the minister added.
DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia, said that he was unaware of any such power abuse to serve one’s personal interest. “None, if committing such a crime, will go unpunished,” he said. Mariam Akter Eko Morium alleged that she was framed in a false case in which she had been in jail for three weeks. She received bail a week ago.
She became acquainted with the police official through one of his friends and gradually developed a good rapport with him. Four months into their marriage, Marium posted a photo of Mizanuer Rahman on the social media introducing him as her husband, when the police officer started torturing her physically and mentally, according to media reports quoting the woman. She claimed that Mizan sued her on ‘false charges’, for which she had to spend behind bars and was later released on bail. According a Mariam Akhter’s family, the police official reportedly married the banker on 16 July last year in the office of a marriage registrar (Kazi) in the city’s Maghbazar area and the mohr (alimony) was set at Tk 5 million. But Mizanur wanted her to keep it a secret till 2019.
The registrar said that the papers would be available in around two weeks.
Marium also said that she was later taken to the police officer’s Bailey Road residence where a doctor, in the name of treating her, injected her with something that made her unconscious. The next afternoon, she found her in Mizanur’s nightwear, Marium alleged while talking to the media.
As she tried to commit suicide afterwards, Mizanur called her mother Queen Talukder on the phone and requested her to come to Dhaka from Bogra. Marium was kept confined to the house until her mother arrived on July 17.
Queen Talukdar, Mariam’s mother, alleged Mizanur had flexed his power to get people at Bogra, Ramna and Mohammadpur police stations to harass them.
The police went to their Lalmatia residence and seized Mariam’s official documents and their cell phones and laptops as well, she said, adding that plainclothes policemen were still on patrol around their residence.
Queen said Mariam met Mizanur on Facebook. When Mariam introduced her to Mizanur, she was shocked to see his age and refused his marriage proposal.
Mizanur later convinced them saying his first wife and children were in Canada and would not be a barrier for his second marriage. However, a few days later Mizanur said his first wife would be coming, and he sent Mariam to a rented flat at Lalmatia. Soon Mizan demanded a divorce from Mariam, but when her mother asked the marriage registrar for a copy of the marriage certificate, he started to avoid them.
This made Queen write a letter to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on 19 November seeking his intervention to obtain a copy of the marriage document, which infuriated Mizanur and he began to harass Mariam and her family.
Mizanuer Rahman denied any wrongdoing and claimed to the media that the woman was a fraudster and her family members ‘frauds’. Mizan claimed that he had no marital relation with Mariam Akhter, whom he reportedly married last year.
He said he had only met her twice in his entire life. He was getting ready to file a case against her in the ICT act for uploading the picture. Selim Reza, the marriage registrar, denied conducting the marriage when speaking to this correspondent, but Queen had a receipt to prove otherwise.
