Staff Reporter :Only a week into the alleged torture of a Bangladesh Bank official by cops, on duty policemen on Friday morning beat up an inspector of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in city’s Jatrabari area leaving him critically injured.Bikash Chandra Das, 40, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH). His condition is stated to be critical as police hit him in the head with revolver butt and stick. On duty physician of DMCH Mozammel Huq said Bikash’s condition is stated to be critical as he received serious head injuries. Earlier on Saturday, a sub-inspector of Mohammadpur police Masud Shikder abducted Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi and tortured him for refusing to give bribe of Tk 5 lakh. Rabbi is now under treatment at the DMCH.According to victim Bikash and his family, like other days riding official motorbike Bikash left his Doyaganj residence at about 5:00am to oversee the road cleaning works and he came under police attack at Mirhazirbagh.His family said several police personnel of Jatrabari Police Station, including Sub-inspector Arshad Hossain, had beaten him in the head. “Riding my official motorcycle I left my Doyaganj residence at about 5:00am to oversee the road cleaning works. Police wearing plainclothes asked me to stop but I didn’t follow their instruction as I considered them as muggers. At one stage they waylaid me and hit my head with revolver’s butt and stick even after giving my identity as an inspector of DSCC,” Bikash told journalists at DMCH. Victim’s wife Swarashati said when as her husband did not follow the instruction of the plainclothes police, they waylaid him and beat him mercilessly. “I want justice.” Being informed Swarashati reached there and found her husband lying in a pool of blood on a van like a dead man. “Instead of rushing my husband to the hospital they were trying to suppress incident,” said Swarashati, who was sitting besides her husband at bed number 11, Ward 201, DMCH. “Blood was rolling down from my husband’s head, nose and other parts of the body. And law enforcers left him in a pool of blood for about one hour,” she said.When Swarashati put pressure on the policemen, they allowed her to take the victim to the DMCH. Victim’s brother Chandan Das told journalists that as soon as Bikash crossed the Sayedabad area and reached Mirhazirbagh a number of plainclothes police, including Sub-Inspector Arshad Hossain Akash, waylaid him and started hitting his head with revolver’s butt and stick. When contacted, Abani Shankar Kor, Officer-in-Charge of Jatrabari Police Station tried to play down the incident and termed it as ‘misunderstanding’. The OC, however, said if any policemen are found guilty, stern action would be taken against them.
