The High Court yesterday summoned three police officials including the superintendent of police of Narayanganj, and eight persons in connection with separate incidents of torture against a man and two women in Narayanganj and Rangpur.
An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore issued the summons following a writ petition and in a suo moto move.
The HC bench asked the SP of Narayanganj, officer-in-charge of Bandar police station and chairman of Musapur union of the district to appear before it on August 3 to explain their roles over the torture of a young man.
One Babu Chakrabartee of Musapur was reportedly mercilessly tortured in an arbitration at the direction of Chairman Anwar Hossain of Musapur union on July 16.
Babu was punished for marrying daughter of one local Brojen Das without his (Brojen) consent.
The daily Bangladesh Protidin on July 20 published a report on the incident, saying that the men of Chairman Anwar Hossain also beat Sukumar and Bimol, brothers of Babu, as they informed the incident to journalists.
Advocate Manzill Murshid, president of Humman Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, yesterday filed a writ petition seeking necessary orders against the persons responsible for the incident.
The same bench yesterday in a suo moto order also directed the OC of Badarganj police station and seven local people to appear before it on July 31 to explain incident of torturing two women in an arbitration at Kashiganj village of Rajarampur Upazila in Rangpur on June 26.
A Bangla daily recently published a report on the incident.
The seven people are local BNP leader Abdur Rouf Mondal, Union Parishad members Ainul Haque and Ilias Ali, retired school teacher Mozahed Ali, Madrasa teacher Sekander Ali and Enamul Haque and Enamul Hossain, who conducted the arbitration.
The court also issued separate rules upon the government to explain within two weeks why it should not be directed to prosecute the persons responsible for torturing the man and women.
Source : The Daily Star
