The police on Sunday arrested four people of Madhupur at Badarganj in Rangpur on a High Court directive in a case of torturing two women in village arbitration.
A bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore ordered the arrest of the four — Badarganj BNP leader Abdur Rouf Mondol, retired schoolteacher Mozahel Ali, Modhupur union council member Ilias Ali, and local madrassah teacher Sekandar Ali. They were produced in court in connection with the case on Thursday.
The court also directed the Badarganj police officer-in-charge, Mobarok Ali Sarkar, to produce the victims in court again on August 7 for their deposition regarding the incident in which Happy Begum and Shahida Begum were beaten in the presence of several hundred people Kashiganj in the district on June 26 centring on the death of Happy's husband Hashem.
The police officer-in-charge was also asked to arrest in seven days other people involved in the incident.
The court asked the police officials to frame charges which include abduction, conspiracy, repression against women, and illegally assembly against the people held responsible for 'extra-judicial punishment' of torture in the name of arbitration.
The court also rebuked the police official for recording the case as bailable.
On Thursday, the police officer-in-charge along with seven — four arrested on the day and Enamul Haque, Enamul Hossain and Aynal Haque arrested earlier — appeared in court following its earlier order issued suo moto on July 24 after the media had reported the incident.
Source : New Age
