Court Correspondent :A court here on Sunday sent former officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station Helal Uddin who was convicted for torturing a Dhaka University student in police custody in 2011 to jail turning down his bail petition.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order when he surrendered before the court seeking bail through his lawyer Saidur Rahman Manik.Earlier, OC Helaluddin surrendered before the court around 3:15 pm as he had been sentenced by the same court on May 17 to three years’ imprisonment for torturing Dhaka University student Abdul Kader in police custody four years back.The court also fined him Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer three months more in jail. Besides, it issued a warrant for his arrest as he was tried in absentia.According to the case statement, a team of plainclothes police from the Khilgaon Police Station hit Kader with sticks at Segunbagicha in the early hours of July 16, 2011 while he was returning to his dormitory, Fazlul Huq Hall, from a relative’s house at Eskaton. When he asked about the reason for the beating and introduced himself as a DU student, they turned furious and took him to the police station.Later, OC Helal Uddin took him to his room and forced him to admit to various crimes he had never committed.The OC also caused injuries to his back, legs and other parts of his body. At one stage, the OC hit him with a sharp machete causing wounds to his left leg.Then, police filed two cases against him-one for robbery and another for possession of an illegal firearm-with the police station while he was shown arrested in another false case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station for carjacking.Teachers and students of DU and people from different walks of life reacted sharply to the police torture on Kader, then a master’s degree student of Biochemistry. Kader was freed on bail on August 3, 2011 after 18 days of his detention.Later, a court acquitted him from the charges. On January 23, 2012, Kader filed a case with Khilgaon Police Station against its former OC Helal Uddin for torturing him. On March 26 the same year, police submitted chargesheet before the court against OC Helal in the case.
