Staff Reporter :
A gazette notification of the Home Ministry has relieved the much-talked Police Superintendent Babul Aktar of the service, rejecting his appeal to withdraw his resignation letter.
The gazette signed by Deputy Secretary Mohammad Ilias Hossain issued on Tuesday afternoon, said that Babul had been relieved in line with his resignation letter. But it did not say when Babul submitted the resignation letter.
It also said that the order will come into effect immediately.
According to the police, the police superintendent tendered his resignation days after his wife Mahmuda Khanam was stabbed and shot dead on June 5, while taking her son to his school bus in the GEC area of Chittagong city.
On August 9, SP Babul sent an application to the senior secretary of home affairs ministry to rescind his signed resignation letter where he claimed that he was forced to sign the resignation letter.
On June 26, Babul Akter was picked up from his in-laws’ residence and takento the DB office in Dhaka for interrogation. Babul was questioned by three DIGs of the police for 15 hours.
Police officials during the interrogation told Babul that they had all the information about his involvement in the murder. Babul had two options – either to go to jail or to resign from service. Babul chose to resign, said a source.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told the reporters that the honorable President took the decision in response to a prayer of Babul Akter.”
On June 5, three assailants stabbed and shot dead Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, when she was taking her son to his school bus stop at GEC intersection in Chittagong.
A gazette notification of the Home Ministry has relieved the much-talked Police Superintendent Babul Aktar of the service, rejecting his appeal to withdraw his resignation letter.
The gazette signed by Deputy Secretary Mohammad Ilias Hossain issued on Tuesday afternoon, said that Babul had been relieved in line with his resignation letter. But it did not say when Babul submitted the resignation letter.
It also said that the order will come into effect immediately.
According to the police, the police superintendent tendered his resignation days after his wife Mahmuda Khanam was stabbed and shot dead on June 5, while taking her son to his school bus in the GEC area of Chittagong city.
On August 9, SP Babul sent an application to the senior secretary of home affairs ministry to rescind his signed resignation letter where he claimed that he was forced to sign the resignation letter.
On June 26, Babul Akter was picked up from his in-laws’ residence and takento the DB office in Dhaka for interrogation. Babul was questioned by three DIGs of the police for 15 hours.
Police officials during the interrogation told Babul that they had all the information about his involvement in the murder. Babul had two options – either to go to jail or to resign from service. Babul chose to resign, said a source.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told the reporters that the honorable President took the decision in response to a prayer of Babul Akter.”
On June 5, three assailants stabbed and shot dead Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, when she was taking her son to his school bus stop at GEC intersection in Chittagong.
