Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Sunday summoned two officials of Jessore Kotwali Model Police Station in connection with torturing a youth for bribe.
Sub-Inspector Nazmul and Assistant Sub-Inspector Habibur Rahman of the police station have been ordered to appear in the HC on January 25 for submitting their statement about the incident.
The HC Bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah directed the Superintendent
of Police of Jessore to probe the incident and to submit the report to the court within 30 days.
A Suo Moto rule was also issued. The Court asked the government and law enforcers to explain as to why appropriate legal action should not be taken against the persons who were responsible for torturing the youth.
The Bench passed the order and issued the rule after a report was published in a Bengali daily on January 6.
The report said that Sub-Inspector Nazmul picked up one Abu Sayeed from his residence in Talbaria village of Jessore Sadar upazila on Wednesday.
Later on Friday, two policemen of Jessore Kotwali Model Police Station demanded Tk two lakh from Sayeed, but he refused to give them the money. The policemen then started beating him at the police station.
A photograph of the torture shows the body of the youth twisted with a rod and hanging while his legs and hands were tied together.
He was freed after his mother and brother lobbied and also paid Tk 50,000 as bribe to police for his release, the report said.
The High Court (HC) on Sunday summoned two officials of Jessore Kotwali Model Police Station in connection with torturing a youth for bribe.
Sub-Inspector Nazmul and Assistant Sub-Inspector Habibur Rahman of the police station have been ordered to appear in the HC on January 25 for submitting their statement about the incident.
The HC Bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah directed the Superintendent
of Police of Jessore to probe the incident and to submit the report to the court within 30 days.
A Suo Moto rule was also issued. The Court asked the government and law enforcers to explain as to why appropriate legal action should not be taken against the persons who were responsible for torturing the youth.
The Bench passed the order and issued the rule after a report was published in a Bengali daily on January 6.
The report said that Sub-Inspector Nazmul picked up one Abu Sayeed from his residence in Talbaria village of Jessore Sadar upazila on Wednesday.
Later on Friday, two policemen of Jessore Kotwali Model Police Station demanded Tk two lakh from Sayeed, but he refused to give them the money. The policemen then started beating him at the police station.
A photograph of the torture shows the body of the youth twisted with a rod and hanging while his legs and hands were tied together.
He was freed after his mother and brother lobbied and also paid Tk 50,000 as bribe to police for his release, the report said.
