The police are yet to record the First Information Report, submitted to the Ramna police, on the death of the former deputy attorney general, Momtaj Uddin Ahmed, who was allegedly tortured after being arrested on August 11 and died at Square Hospitals in police custody on Friday afternoon.
'We have received the complaint…We are investigating. After investigation, we will decide whether or not it will be recorded as a case,' the Ramna thana's officer-in-charge, Rafiqul Islam, told New Age.
After the death of MU Ahmed, his widow Selina Ahmed on Friday sued home minister Sahara Khatun, attorney general Mahbubey Alam, home secretary, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, Detective Branch's deputy commissioner and Shahbagh thana's officer-in-charge on charge of killing her husband.
Sources in the police said that any allegation should be recorded with the concerned thana either as a General Diary or a case.
Ramna thana's officer-in-charge, when asked, declined to make any comment.
He, however, requested this correspondent to contact the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's media cell if he had any other questions.
A group of lawyers, led by Supreme Court Bar Association's president Khandker Mahbub Hossain, submitted the First Information Report, signed by Selina, to the Ramna police on Friday night.
MU Ahmed's colleague Sana Ullah Miah told New Age on Sunday that the police had received their FIR, and given them a copy of the receipt.
Ramna thana's operation officer, sub-inspector Altaf Hossain, who received the FIR, on Friday night told New Age, 'We have received the complaint, but a decision has not yet been made whether it will be recorded as a regular case or a General Diary, as the officer-in-charge is out of the office.'
But on Sunday, when asked, Altaf refused to make any comment.
On Saturday, the police took MU Ahmed's body from BIRDEM's mortuary without informing his family or his lawyers. Later, he was buried at Bogra.
MU Ahmed, who was admitted to the hospital on August 16, breathed his last at around 1:10pm on Friday. Before being admitted to Square Hospitals, he underwent treatment at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in custody.
Within hours after his arrest on August 11, MU Ahmed fell sick in the office of the Detective Branch and was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, but the physicians there referred him to the NICVD.
Source : New Age
