Once again a young man, presumed to have been abducted and murdered, has returned alive in front of a court of Narayanganj after six years, though a kidnapping case was underway in this regard and the court was about to deliver its verdict soon.
Earlier in August this year, police also rescued a schoolgirl in Narayanganj after 51 days of her missing, much to the surprise of the locals. Then the police came under fire for recording confessional statements forcefully from the three suspected accused for abducting, gang-raping, and killing the schoolgirl.
Yet again, investigations of Narayanganj police came under scrutiny as the police were about to frame a charge sheet against six accused people in the abduction case of the youth — Mamun. However, all the six persons arrested in this case, refused their involvement despite alleged torture by police.
On Thursday, the court of Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate ordered the three officers, investing the case, to submit a written statement within seven working days. Meanwhile, various acts of brutalities and misdeeds like intimidation, extortion, detention of people without any valid reason, bribery and threatening to crossfire are the most common allegations being raised against police personnel.
According to a media report in a national daily on Saturday, on May 10 of 2014, Mamun of Shakhirabazar village of Chandpur’s Matlab went missing after he reportedly gone to Narayanganj that day. The case statement stated that Taslima, a garment worker, had a relationship with Mamun. On that day Taslima took Mamun to her aunt’s house, after which he went missing.
After two years in 2016, Maksuda Begum, wife of one of the accused Sattar gave her confessional statement as a witness of the “murder and disposal of Mamun’s body” under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The same year Mamun’s father Abul Kalam, now staying Kuwait, also filed an “abduction in order to murder” case against six people in this regard.
We have been urging for long that remand system is not good for hard police investigation. Armed police investigation is responsible for many miscarriages of justice. Remand for forcing confession is gross abuse of the justice system.
