Local people of West Dumuria under Khanjapur union of Gournadi in Barisal on Sunday noon held protest rally protesting death of a business man allegedly by police-torture.
Family sources said, Shahin Molla, 22, son of Dubai expatriate Mostafa Molla of West Dumuria in the upazila and owner of a photo-studio at Salta Bazar.
Monir Molla, elder brother of the victim Shahin Molla, said Shahin was engaged in his business since last two-year.
Sub Inspector Nazmul Hasan of Dashar police station under Kalkini upazila detained Shain with his friends Mukit Akon and Shah Alam Chowkidar for alleged suspicious activities instigated by local police source Nazrul Islam on June 8 night when Shahin was talking with his friend sitting on bridge near his studio on Gournadi-Kalkini upazila border.
The three were brought to Dashar police station and SI Nazmul demanded Tk.2 lakhs as bribe to release the three.
Mukit and Shahalam were released after paying Tk 51 thousand and police putting 5 pieces of Yaba in the pocket of Shahin sent him to jail for alleged drug peddling, family members claimed.
However police tortured Shahin mercilessly for not-giving release money while he was under custody of Dashar PS, Shahin alleged to his mother Reba Khanam when she visited Shahin at jail custody.
Shahin was admitted at Madaripur jail hospital and from there sent to Madaripur Sadar Hospital at 9:00 PM Saturday after his condition deteriorated.
Shahin succumbed to his injuries there on at about 9:30 PM Saturday night.
The dead body would be handed over to the relatives of Shahin after autopsy. If Shahin was drug addicted then withdrawal syndromes from drug addiction may causes his death, said Dr, Siddikur Rahman, resident medical officer of Madaripur general hospital.
Mukit Akon and Shahalam Chowkidar, the released two associates of Shahin also acknowledged about torture on Shahin under police custody.
Emddul Huq, Dashar police station officer- in- charge, denying taking any bribe or returning the amount, said the two others arrested with Shahin were released by the recommendation by local elite Syed Babu.
SI Nazmul Hasan denying any torture on Shahin for collecting bribe claimed that Shahin was a drug addicted and drug peddler and died due to withdrawal syndromes from addiction.
