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Sylhet police await major shakeup

37 cops on immediate transfer list; their links with outlaws suspected

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Sylhet
The authorities have initiated a major change in police administration in Sylhet with four inspectors, eight subinspectors and 25 constables already on the immediate transfer list.
The transfer will start in a day or two, a source said, as allegations were made that
some officers, who were transferred to Sylhet from Khulna before and after the blast at the shrine of Hajrat Shajalal, had links with outlaws.
The notion that outlaws are now crowding Sylhet got a strong basis when an activist of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), Mahbubur Rahman alias Thandu, was caught at Companyganj Upazila in Sylhet on July
28. Hailing from Jhenidah, Thandu was wanted in a number of criminal cases.
After the grenade blast at the shrine, a major shake up in police administration was done because of flaws in the security to the British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury who was injured in the incident.
The superintend of police (SP) was suspended and withdrawn within three days of the blast and the assistant SP, headquarters, and the officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, who was the first investigation officer of the case, were transferred. Besides, a list of as many as 12 inspectors, 28 subinspectors, 30 assistant sub-inspectors and over 600 constables was prepared for their immediate withdrawal from Sylhet region.
Although some of them were withdrawn, but the process was not complete.
Meanwhile, the joint interrogation cell quizzed expatriate AL leader SM Nunu Miah, who was remanded for three days, in connection with the Saturday night's blast that took place at Gulshan Centre.
The cell comprised members from the Criminal Investigation Department, National Security Intelligence, Forces Intelligence, Special Branch and Rapid Action Battalion.
Nunu claimed himself innocent and alleged that a ruling BNP MP had implicated him in the blast.
Nunu's wife Nasima at a press conference at Sylhet Press Club yesterday alleged that police had falsely implicated her husband in the crime.
She said the BNP MP is a political rival of AL leader Muhibur Rahman, a close friend of Nunu.
Former AL lawmaker Shah Azizur Rahman and former upazila chairman Muhibur Rahman also attended the press conference.
With stringent security in place, additional armed police are now guarding the markets, shopping malls and important street points round the clock. BDR personnel are also there.
People going to mosques are being checked.
Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina will visit Sylhet on August 12 and visit Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital to see the AL leaders, activists and others injured in Saturday night's blast.
Hasina will exchange views with the press at Sylhet Circuit House.