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Police to see if Rashid's death is linked to son's arrest

Staff Correspondent
Police will take actions if investigation by a top Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) official confirms any link between Abdur Rashid's death and his son’s arrest.
’’First we will sec whether Rashid's death has any link to his son's arrest. And if it has, we will take action,” DMP Commissioner Ashraful Huda told The Daily Star yesterday.
Abdur Rashid, 55, died on Thursday allegedly after being assaulted by Sutrapur police when he went to the police station to arrange the release of his son Papon, who was picked up by police during
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a block raid on Gandaria area. Papon, a class IX student of Saint Gregory’s School, was on his way home after playingcricket, said sources.
Ashraful Huda, now also the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), said he has instructed Deputy Commissioner (east division) Obaidur Rahman to probe the incident.
Meanwhile Obaidur said he finds Sutrapur police had nothing to do with the death of Abdur Rashid, who fell sick at the police station on Thursday.
Obaidur told The Daily Star yesterday that he had visited tne victim’s family and talked to the relatives. But neither any relative nor the locals alleged that police had demanded bribe from Rashid and shoved him hard from which he fainted.
"I talked to Rashid's wife, his father and locals and they said Rashid fell sick at the sight of his son in the lock-up and asked his wife to take him back home," Obaidur said adding a cardiac patient Rashid died later.
On police's alleged misbehaviour with Rashid, Obaidur said the family members brought no such allegations.
According to press reports, on hearing about the arrest, Abdur Rashid, along with his wife, rushed to Sutrapur Police Station and requested police to release his son. They claimed Papon to be innocent of any crime. But police demanded bribe for the release and started beating Papon in front of his parents.
At one stage, when Rashid protested, police pushed him down causing him to lapse into unconsciousness. He was declared dead after being taken to the National Hospital.
Asked whether any action will be taken if a causal link is found between
the arrest of the schoolboy and his father's death, the DMP Commissioner declined to comment for the sake of the investigation.
Replying to another query, Huda said innocent people might get arrested during a block raid, but police usually release them once they are positive about the innocence of the arrestee.
Meanwhile, a Gandaria man seeking anonymity alleged yesterday that repeated threats from police did not let the locals bring out a procession planned to protest Rashid's death from 'police torture'.