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Jamal's mother files court complaints against cops

ABUL KALAM AZAD, back from Kapasia
A petition was lodged with the Kapasia First Class Magistrate's Court yesterday accusing the officer-in-charge (OC) and two other policemen of the Kapasia Police Station of the killing of college student and BCL activist Jamaluddin FakironApril 19.
The petition was lodged following repeated refusal by the Kapasia police to take case regarding the death.
Ramiza Begum, mother of Jamaluddin, filed the case with a crowded court at about 1:00pm. The accused are OC Gazi Mainuddin, Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) Abu
Bakar Siddique and Constable Altaf Hossain.
Ramiza, the petitioner, alleged that she went to the Kapasia police station several times after her son's killing to file a murder case, but on each occasion the police refused to take it.
About 150 lawyers from the capital aided by some 50 counsellors appeared before the court and moved the case. Senior lawyers of the Supreme Court Barrister Amirul Islam, Barrister Shafiq Ahmed, advocates Ozair Farook and Syed Ahmed, writers Syed Shamsul Haq and Shahriar Kabir, and President of Gazipur District Bar Association Wazi Uddin Mia were present.
Briefing newsmen, Barrister
Amirul Islam, also the convenor of the Combined Lawyers Coordination Council, said the police are infringing human rights although they are supposed to protect them.
The lawyers also urged the court to add the autopsy report of Jamal to the case documents. The autopsy report is yet to be submitted.
After the hearing, Magistrate M Abdul Kader accepted the case and formed a one-member judicial probe committee to probe the death. He also asked the committee headed by Magistrate Rashida Ferdous to submit its report before the next hearing scheduled for June 8.
Sources said the Kapasia police did not take the murder case, as they were the accused in the case. The ASI and the constable have been suspended after the incident, but no action has been taken against the OC.
Jamal's mother Ramiza later told journalists at the court that some local people were issuing threat to her to keep mum and stay off the court. "I have lost my only son and now I want justice," a sobbing Ramiza said.
Police picked up Jamal, a member of the Kapasia unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and president of Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Smriti Library, and allegedly tortured him to death inside the Kapasia Police Station in the morning of April 19.
According family members, a team of Kapasia police led by the OC went to Jamal's Targaon village at about 1:30am on April 17 and
arrested him on charge of robbery. Police had told his family that they were taking him for interrogation. But, they did not file any case.
Police however filed a case at about 10:15am the following day but did not produce Jamal before court even after 24 hours of his arrest. Charges are there that the OC misbehaved with Jamal's mother and did not allow her to meet her son at the police station.
Sources said a severely roughed-up Jamal fled the custody and jumped into the adjacent Shitalakhya river in the morning of April 18. But the police chased him down and poked him with bamboo until he drowned in the water.
In a bid to cover up the incident the Kapasia police later claimed that Jamal was missing after he had jumped into the river after having fled the police station. Amidst widespread allegation and public outcry, Fire Brigade divers recovered the body on April 20, which bore marks of multiple injury.
The Kapasia police then filed an unnatural death case.
Jamal obtained first division with star marks in both the SSC and HSC examinations and was doing his graduation in political science at the Alam Government College in Kapasia.
Jamal's father told The Daily Star that the police picked up his son though on the night of the robbery he was at the house of his grandfather at Kalaroa thana in Mymensingh.