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Girl Abuse in Police Club

HC summons 8 police officers

Victim's mother files case against five cops

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday summoned eight police officers to appear before it on June 6 and explain their roles in Tuesday's incident in which a girl and her parents were assaulted in front of Dhaka magistrate's court.
The eight officers are: Harun-or-Rashid, deputy commissioner of police of Lalbagh zone; its assistant commissioner Rajib Al Masud; Salauddin Khan, officerin-charge of Kotwali Police Station; its
sub-inspectors, Nuruzzaman Sarker, Amir Afzal Biplob, Zaman and Jahangir; and the president of Police Club near the court.
Meanwhile, the girl's mother late last night filed a case against five policemen, including operations officer Nazmul Huda, with Kotwali Police Station, said Sub-Inspector Mokbul Hossain.
Yesterday, in a suo moto rule, the High Court also directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to turn in a report within 48 hours containing details of the responsible police officers including their records, and what steps had been taken against them in connection with the incident.
In the rule, it asked the authorities concerned of the government to explain within two weeks as to why appropriate actions should not be taken against the police officials responsible for the incident.
It also asked the victims to be at the court on that day and assist the court in delivering a rule. The victims include the family and lawyers and newsmen who were injured in police truncheon charge.
The High Court bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim came up with the order following publication of news items by newspapers on the incidentyesterday.
On Tuesday, some police officials of Kotwali Police Station sexually assaulted, beat up and harassed a teenaged girl, her father and mother inside the Police Club and in front of the Dhakamagistrate's court.
The cops confined the 15-year-old girl to a room of the
police club and sexually assaulted her allegedly for protesting against the police claim of her father's motorbike being a stolen one.
After the assault, when she was talking to newsmen about her ordeal, police charged truncheons on her and beat up six journalists and four lawyers. They then picked up the girl, her father, mother and two lawyers and took them to Kotwali Police Station for no apparent reason.
Ain O Salish Kendra took the family into their custody Tuesday evening.
The bench yesterday requested Sultana Kamal, Ain O Salish Kendra chief, to be present before the court along with the girl and her father and mother on June 6 to assist it in issuing a rule.
It asked the journalists and lawyers, who were assaulted and injured by the police during the incident, to be present at the court and provide it with necessary information the same day.
Prashanta Kumar Karmaker, court reporter for daily Prothom Alo, MA Jalil of daily Kaier Kantha, Tuhin Hawlader of Bangladesh Pratidin, and lawyers Shakhawat Hossain Taslim and Rashedul Islam Raju
were assaulted during the police attack.
The girl and her parents went to Kotwali Police Station yesterday evening to file the case. Police kept them waiting until 11:55pm before they accepted the case.
The mother, complainant of the case, named only two policemen in the case.
Meanwhile, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha held a meeting yesterday with leaders of Dhaka Court Reports' Association (DCRA) and police officials Harun-or-Rashid, Rajib Al Masud and Salauddin Khan around 2:00pm yesterday.
The police officials present at the meeting were respondents to the High Court rule.
In the meeting, president of Dhaka Bar Association Md Borhanuddin and its general secretary Mohammad Ali Hossain and Dhaka Metropolitan Public Prosecutor Abdullah Abu were also present.
The lawyers and journal-ists at the meeting demanded that Deputy Commissioner Harun punishes police personnel, including OC Salauddin, responsible for Tuesday's incident.