Staff Reporter :
The authorities of the ATN News, a private television channel, filed a complaint with a police station in connection with the assault on two journalists by several police men during the half-day hartal at Shahbagh on Thursday.
ATN News Deputy Manager Mosharraf Alam Siddique filed the complaint with Shahbagh Police Station on Friday.
Police’s Ramna Zone Deputy Commissioner Maruf Hossain Sarder told The New Nation that the Deputy Commissioners of Public Order Management Department had been ordered to take action after investigation.
Shahabagh Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abu Bakkar Siddique said that the complaint had been
filed against Assistant Sub-Inspector Ershad Mondol, and three constables namely Mokhlesur Rahman, Hossain Kabir and Sabuj Khan.
The organisation, which organised the half-day hartal against the Rampal Coal Power Plant, also condemned the police action vehemently.
Images of the assault went viral on the social media, triggering an outrage among the journalists.
The television channel’s cameraperson Abdul Alim came under attack when he was taking the footage of some policemen, who were walloping and dragging a hartal supporter, in front of the police station.
They hurled abuse, kicked and punched and hit him with rifles. The policemen also tried to snatch his video camera.
As ATN News Reporter Kazi Ihsan bin Didar protested the assault, the police members swooped on him also, and dragged both the journalists to the police station.
Later senior journalists of the ATN News went to the police station and took them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
After primary investigation, the Police authorities suspended Assistant Sub-Inspector Ershad Mondol and identified 14 to 15 others, including constables Mokhlesur, Hossain Kabir and Sabuj Khan, who were involved with the incident.
The authorities of the ATN News, a private television channel, filed a complaint with a police station in connection with the assault on two journalists by several police men during the half-day hartal at Shahbagh on Thursday.
ATN News Deputy Manager Mosharraf Alam Siddique filed the complaint with Shahbagh Police Station on Friday.
Police’s Ramna Zone Deputy Commissioner Maruf Hossain Sarder told The New Nation that the Deputy Commissioners of Public Order Management Department had been ordered to take action after investigation.
Shahabagh Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abu Bakkar Siddique said that the complaint had been
filed against Assistant Sub-Inspector Ershad Mondol, and three constables namely Mokhlesur Rahman, Hossain Kabir and Sabuj Khan.
The organisation, which organised the half-day hartal against the Rampal Coal Power Plant, also condemned the police action vehemently.
Images of the assault went viral on the social media, triggering an outrage among the journalists.
The television channel’s cameraperson Abdul Alim came under attack when he was taking the footage of some policemen, who were walloping and dragging a hartal supporter, in front of the police station.
They hurled abuse, kicked and punched and hit him with rifles. The policemen also tried to snatch his video camera.
As ATN News Reporter Kazi Ihsan bin Didar protested the assault, the police members swooped on him also, and dragged both the journalists to the police station.
Later senior journalists of the ATN News went to the police station and took them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
After primary investigation, the Police authorities suspended Assistant Sub-Inspector Ershad Mondol and identified 14 to 15 others, including constables Mokhlesur, Hossain Kabir and Sabuj Khan, who were involved with the incident.
