Staff Reporter :
Babul Akter, a former superintendent of police and the suspected mastermind of the murder of his wife Mitu, appealed to the court seeking safety after he alleged that his cell at a Feni jail had been searched by police illegally.
His lawyer Golam Mawla Murad filed the petition with court of Chattogram Metropolitan Sessions Judge Dr Jebunnessa Begum.
In the petition, lawyer Golam Mawla said that on Saturday, Feni Model Police Station OC Nizam Uddin searched the Feni District Jail room of former Superintendent of Police Babul Akhtar. But nothing was found in his room. Such activities are being done only to keep him under mental pressure.”
“It is surprising how a police officer entered the prison and searched the
cell of an inmate. For this reason, Babul Akhtar has applied for security under Section 11 of the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013,” he added.
The court is scheduled to issue an order on the complaint on 19 September.
Earlier on Thursday (8 September), Babul Akter appealed to file a case against PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder and six police officers claiming that he was tortured while in PBI custody.
PBI Chattogram District Unit Superintendent of Police Nazmul Hasan, Chattogram Metro Unit SP Naima Sultana, former PBI Inspector Santosh Kumar Chakma, AKM Mohiuddin Salim and the organisation’s Chattogram District Unit Inspector Kazi Enayet Kabir were made accused in the case.
On 5 June, 2016, Babul Akter’s wife Mahmuda was shot and hacked to death by miscreants in GEC intersection area of Chattogram city. She had gone to GEC intersection to drop their eldest son onto the school bus.
Babul was in Dhaka at the time of the incident. Later, he went to Chattogram and filed a murder case against unknown individuals. With the final report of Babul’s case, he was made the main accused in the chargesheet of a case filed by his father-in-law.
The case was transferred to the PBI in 2019 after Mitu’s father, a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP’s mishandling of the case.
On 12 May 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison.
