Our Correspondent :
A woman filed a case against a sub-inspector over sexually harassing her at Barishal’s Kotwali Police Station on October 16 last year.
The victim filed the case on May 24 at the Barishal Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, reported our correspondent.
“The victim was sexually harassed by SI Asadul at the Kotwali Police Station after she was asked to go to the station on October 16 last year, regarding a GD she had filed on September 26 the same year,” Md Asaduzzaman Howlader, counsel of the victim, said on Monday.
The court already directed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the matter, confirmed Asaduzzaman.
The victim’s lawyer said the incident was reported to the officer-in-charge of the police station at the time and he assured her of investigating into it.
“The CCTV camera of the police station was on at the time of the incident,” the lawyer said quoting sources.
“A PBI investigation is ongoing. In addition, we have started another investigation, there is nothing more to say at the moment,” said Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Nurul Islam.
