Staff Reporter :Employees and workers of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Monday threatened to go for an indefinite strike if their demand for arrest of the cops involved in assaulting the corporation officials is not met within three days.Under the banner of Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SKOP), they made the demand from a human chain formed in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city with SKOP convenor Akhter Hossain Dewan in the chair.From the human chain, the DSCC employees and workers demanded exemplary punishment of the police men, including Sub-Inspector Arshad Hossain Akash, who were involved in beating up cleaning inspector Bikash Chandra Das. Motijheel police also tortured DSCC engineer Abdul Mazed in Baitul Mokarram Mosque area six months ago.They also threatened to stop removing garbage, switching on and off the streetlights and besiege police stations after the expiry of their three days dateline.Earlier, the employees and workers of 13 organisations took out procession from the Nagar Bhaban, the office of DSCC, at Gulistan. Parading different city streets, they formed human chain in front of the National Press Club. DSCC Sramik League President Mizanur Rahman Bhuyian said that six months ago Motijheel police tortured their engineer Abdul Mazed in Baitul Mokarram Mosque area.”Now, SI Arshad Hossain Akash and others beat up our cleaning inspector Bikash Chandra Das. We strongly condemned the incident and demanded their immediate arrest and punishment,” he said.Victim Bikash Chandra Das’s wife Swarashati, who was also present in the human chain said, “My husband has been transferred to the ICU of Lab Aid Hospital. As his condition has remained critical, he couldn’t move and even talk.” On January 15, Bikash Chandra Das, 40, a cleaning inspector of the DSCC, was allegedly beaten up by the policemen near Mirhazirbagh Bazar of Jatrabari area around 5:00 am ‘without any reason’.The SI Akash was suspended on Saturday night for assaulting DSCC inspector Bikash Talking to journalists at his secretariat office yesterday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the police officials involved in blackmailing and torturing of Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi and DSCC cleaning inspector Bikash Chandra Das will not be spared. “SI Masud was involved in blackmailing and torturing the BB official according to the primary investigation. Besides, SI Akash was also involved in torturing the DSCC cleaning inspector. Probe suggests their behaviour were unlike what it would be of a policeman at that time,” he told journalists.The Home Minister said police must follow the dress code when they will be on duty.”The detective branch (DB) of police will have to wear coat containing logo of the department. In the wake some incidents relating to extortion by the police, the Home Ministry asked the police department to obey the rules and regulations,” he said.
