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Tortured to Death

Cops asked to register case against Rab

Staff Correspondent
A Brahmanbaria court yesterday directed the police to register a case against nine Rab men over the allegation of custodial torture on a businessman who later died in a hospital.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Nazmun Nahar ordered the OC of Nabinagar Police Station to file a first information report (FIR) against the Rab men, said advocate Khairul Anam.
Khairul and several other lawyers moved the case on behalf of the family of the victim, Shahnur Alam, 43, on Sunday. The court then fixed yesterday for further hearing on the case.
The accused Rab men include Maj AZM Shakib Siddiqui, commander of crime prevention company (CPC)-3 of Rab-14, and Enamul Haq, assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Rab unit.
Seven other unnamed Rab men and two civilians have also been made accused in the case.
In the case statement, victim's brother Mehedi Hasan alleged that some Rab-14 members tortured Shahnur at the battalion's Bhairab camp in Kishoreganj.
He died at a hospital in Comilla on May 6 after being admitted there following a referral from the Brahmanbaria prison authorities.
ASI Enamul led the team that picked up Shahnur from his home on April 29, the case statement reads.
Rupak Kumar Saha, officer-in-charge (OC) of Nabinagar Police Station, said he had heard about the court's order and was waiting to receive its copy.
The case comes amid widespread criticism of the elite force over its alleged involvement in extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, something the force has always denied.
Three of its dismissed officers are now facing abduction and murder
charges in a Narayanganj court.
The case involves the April 27 kidnap and subsequent killing of seven people, including Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Ghandan Sarker.
One of the dismissed officers, Maj Arif Hossain, made a confessional statement before a Narayanganj court yesterday.
In 2011, a Jhalakathi court directed the police to register a case against six Rab personnel over an allegation of shooting a college student, Limon Hossain.
Limon's mother, Henora Begum, complained that the Rab men on March 23 that year shot her son near their home.
In Brahmanbaria, victim's brother Mehedi said nine plainclothes men came to their home at Bogdohor village under Nabinagar upazila around 12:30pm on April 29.
Three of them summoned Shahnur and asked for drinking water. Shahnur brought water for them but in the meantime the six others, who were a little behind, appeared on the scene and handcuffed him.
All the nine men then brought out Rab uniforms from their backpacks, put them on and then went away with Shahnur, Mehedi added.
The next day, Shahnur was handed over to Nabinagar Police Station with injury marks on his body. A court sent him to jail on May 1, police said.
As his condition worsened, the jail authorities admitted him to Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital on May 4 and later shifted him to Comilla Modern Hospital. He died there on May 6.
The two civilians accused in the case are Nazrul Islam, a manpower broker of Krishnanagar, and his accomplice Abu TaherofNabinagar.
Mehedi claimed that the Rab men picked up his brother in exchange for money from Nazrul.
Rab denied that its members tortured Shahnur. It said the Rab men detained Shahnur following an allegation that he was involved in extortion in the area.
It also claimed that Shahnur was handed over to the police unhurt.
But, Nabinagar police said the forwarding report that the Rab-14 officials gave them mentioned that Shahnur's body bore injury marks.