Two police officers were on Sunday sued for alleged attempt to kill the opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque during the general strike on July 6.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker ABM Ashrafuddin Nizan filed the case with a Dhaka court accusing additional deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Harun-or-Rashad, assistant commissioner Biplob Sarker and some 25 to 30 unnamed policemen of attempting to kill Farroque on Manik Mia Avenue.
After hearing the case, metropolitan magistrate AKM Azad asked the Dhaka
Metropolitan Police commissioner to investigate the matter and submit the investigation report to the court by August 10.
The court also posted for August 10 the next hearing in the case.
In his complaint, Nizan, the lawmaker for the Lakshmipur 4 constituency, told the court that some 25 to 30 the policemen and members of the Armed Police Battalion led by Harun and Biplop had in a planned way cordoned off 22 opposition lawmakers, including Farroque.
Nizan also alleged that at one point, the police officers, without being instigated, started abusing Farroque, who was leading the lawmakers about 7:50 on Manik Miah Avenue on July 6, the first day of the 48-hour general strike the BNP and its allies enforced.
'As Farroque lodged a protest, Harun and other police in riot gear beat him Farroque with truncheons, tore off his polo shirt and kicked him down on the ground,' Nizan added.
As Farroque tried to escape, the police chased him to the lawmakers' apartments, captured him in the garage of a building and severely beat him again, the lawmaker said.
He said that Harun had hit Farroque in the head with truncheon to kill him. Farroque was wounded in the head and was bleeding.
Nizan said that Farroque had injuries overall the body, especially in the left leg. The leg had swollen. He felt acute pain in the head and at knee-joints.
He said that Farroque was under treatment in United Hospital in a critical condition.
Nizan also said that soon after the incident, he went to the Sher-e-Bangla police station to file case but the police refused to registrar it.
He named 13 lawmakers as witnesses in the case.
Sanaullah Mia with Mahmud Hasan Shakil acted for Nizan.
Source : New Age
