Staff Reporter :
Chief of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Banaj Kumar Majumder has filed a case against former superintendent of police Babul Akter and three others under the Digital Security Act (DSA) and the Special Powers Act (SPA).
The PBI chief, also the Additional Inspector General of Police, lodged the case with Dhanmondi Police Station on Tuesday night for providing and spreading false and untrue information in the Mitu murder case.
Three others accused are Babul’s father and former police officer Abdul Wadud Mia, brother Habibur Rahman Labu and journalist Iliyas Hossain, said Officer-in-Charge of Dhanmondi Police Station Ekram Ali Mia.
PBI SP for Dhaka metro north unit, Md Jahangir Alam, said that the case was filed over a video content made by Iliyas and circulating in online sphere that tarnished the image of Banaj Kumar and PBI as a unit of the police force.
The case also included a section of the Special Powers Act since the video tried to destroy communal harmony by presenting false information of religious issue, said Jahangir.
Babul Akter, now in jail over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, on September 8 sued six officials of the Police Bureau of Investigation, including its chief Banaj Kumar Majumder, for custodial torture.
The other accused are PBI Chattogram district unit SP Nazmul Hasan, Chattogram metro unit SP Naima Sultana, PBI former inspector Santosh Kumar Chakma, AKM Mohiuddin Salim and inspector Kazi Enayet Kabir.
Babul complained in the case statement that he was tortured by the accused while he was in PBI custody from May 10-17, 2021.
The Chattogram Metropolitan Session Judge Court on Sunday rejected Babul’s case.
