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Police 'torture' claims two more lives

STAR REPoRT
Two on-trial prisoners died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) following alleged police torture.
The victims are Awami League leader and a Union Parishad (UP) member Fazlul Huq Bhuiyan, 40, of Rupganj and Mohammad Ata, a rickshaw- puller of Kamrangirchar.
Our Narayanganj correspondent said that Fazlul, 40, member of the Rupganj Sadar UP, died at the DMCH early hours of Tuesday. He was the president of Rupganj ward no. 6 of the Awami League.
The victim's family claimed that Fazlul died from police torture during his two-day remand by the Rupganj police.
He was arrested on May 12 from his Pitalganj village on charge of involvement in the murder of a housewife, Maria Khatun on December 3 last year, the deputy jailer of Narayanganj told The Daily Star. Fazlul was an FIR-listed accused in the murder case.
Fazlul was produced before the court on the same day and taken on a two-day police remand. But he was sent to the jail as his condition deteriorated. He was treated inside the Narayanganj jail by physician Jatindra Chandra Mandal. As his condition further worsened, the jail authorities transferred him to the Dhaka Central Jail Hospital on May 19. Later, he was admitted to the DMCH where he died at about 5:00am yesterday.
Mosharraf Hossain, assistant superintendent of police of Nayanaganj, said Fazlul was suffering from high blood pressure, which caused his death. He refuted the allegation of police torture.
Family members said they would field a case against the police officials concerned.
Meanwhile, rickshaw-puller Mohammad Alam was picked up by the Detectives Branch of police from Baro Gram in the city's Kamrangirchar area and later he was handed over to the Kamrangirchar Police Station a week ago.
The victim was sent to the Dhaka Central Jail after allegedly being tortured in police custody. He was shifted to the DMCH as his condition deteriorated at about 12:45pm on Monday, but was declared dead on arrival, hospital sources said.
Jamil, brother of the victim, alleged that Alam died from police torture at the Kamrangirchar Police Station.
The duty officer of the Kamramgichar Police Station told The Daily Star last night that the victim was arrested a week ago for his alleged drug addiction and was sent to the central jail.
He refuted police torture on the victim.