Our Correspondent :
Suspended inspector Liaqat Ali, the prime accused in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case, along with six others including two other policemen, have been sued for allegedly extorting TK 2 lakh from a businessman threatening to kill him in crossfire.
Businessman Jasim Uddin lodged a complaint with the court of Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Salem Md Noman on Wednesday against 13 persons including nine policemen.
Taking the complaint into cognizance, the court ordered the deputy commissioner (Detective Branches-North) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) to investigate the role of seven accused — including Liaqat — out of 13 people, said the plaintiff lawyer Jewel Das.
The six other accused are Cumilla’s Daudkandi Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Nazrul, former SI Hannan, SM Sahabuddin, Bishnupad Palit, Kajol Kanti Baidya and Ziaur Rahman.
SI Nazrul has been attached at Satkania police station of Chattogram while Sahabuddin, Bishnupad, Kajol and Ziaur Rahman are the business rivals of the plaintiff, said the lawyer.
Jasim, the owner of Suchana Enterprise in the city’s Sagarika BISIC area, told our Chattogram correspondent that he had filed a case over burglary and looting in his office in 2014. SI Liaqat Ali was the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case. Liaqat took Tk 50,000 from him during the investigation.”
“On 14, 2014, I was called at the Laldighi DB office and was requested to compromise the case there. When I denied, they (the accused) demanded Tk 5 lakh and tortured me in the office,” he said.
Jasim claimed SI Liaqat detained him in the Patenga police station premises and demanded the money while threatening to kill him in crossfire.
Jasim claimed that he gave Tk 2 lakh to SI Liaqat to save his own life. Despite giving him the money, the SI later took him to Sadarghat Police Station and showed him arrested in an extortion case filed with the police station.
“I was sent to jail in the case and came out of bail after 19 days,” he added.
