Md Belayet Hossain, superintendent of police (SP) of Rajshahi range, was sued on Wednesday in connection with an extortion case registered with the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
Golam Mostofa, a businessman and a close relative of former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Didar Hussain on Wednesday noon.
Some 15 to 16 unknown people were also made accused in the case.
After a hearing, the magistrate took the case into cognisance, recorded the statement of the complainant and instructed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the matter and submit a report by November 1.
Some 15-16 unknown people, introducing themselves as ‘DB men’, led by Belayet Hossain, beat businessman Mostafa mercilessly and forcibly took him to the capital’s DB office, demanding TK 25 lakh as extortion, Mostofa alleged.
The DB men beat him up cruelly in the office, blindfolding his eyes with black cloth, he added.
The case documents said, “Around two years ago, the complainant [Mostafa] was introduced to Belayet Hossain in the office of former IGP Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary. A good relation developed between them. Belayet took a loan of Tk 5 lakh from the complainant’s father Golam Mohammad on August 11 last year to register his land. He paid thus money through a check on March 15.”
“On April 4 this year, Belayet sent a man to the complainant’s father. The man introduced himself as a DB officer. Belayet then called the complainant’s father and said that his son would be in trouble if he did not pay Tk 5 lakh. Later, the complainant’s father handed over a check of Tk 5 lakh to Belayet. On April 10, his father spoke to the complainant. The duo came to know that Belayet had taken the money through fraudulence,” the documents further read.
“On August 8, some 15-16 unidentified persons entered the complainant’s house in the capital’s Dhanmondi in the name of DB, along with Belayet Hossain, and demanded TK 25 lakh as extortion threatening to frame Mostofa in an arms case and impose fines and imprisonment on him by a mobile court,” the case statement said.
According to the case documents, when Mostofa refused to pay the extortion amount, he was beaten and taken to the office of the DB police in the capital and the accused Belayet said if he did not get Tk 25 lakh, he would be put in a crossfire or a drug case involving 800 bottles phensedyl. The accused also threatened to file an arms case against him.
On that day, the complainant’s father gave TK 3.5 lakh to Belayet.
On August 10, another Tk 50,000 was given to the accused. The accused asked him to pay Tk 6 lakh within 7 days, otherwise he threatened to file various cases against Mostafa, the case documents added.
Contacted, SP Belayet Hossain said, “I loaned the man [Mostofa] Tk 5 lakh. He paid one lakh two times. The rest Tk 4 lakh is to be paid on Thursday. I also have documents. Since he is not paying the money, the man filed an extortion case against me.”
Asked whether he was a relative of the man, the SP said, “We are not relatives, but acquaintances.”
