STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Police could not yet identify the “cop in uniform” who harassed and hurled abuse at a female teacher of Tejgaon College after seeing a “teep” on her forehead while she was going to the campus on Saturday morning.

Multiple teams of police are working to identify the man, Biplob Kumar Sarkar, deputy commissioner (Tejgaon division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star yesterday. “The woman mentioned six digits of the motorbike. Based on that, we identified two motorbikes in the Dhaka Metro series -- L and H,” he said.

One of them said, his motorbike with the “L” series got stolen in 2016 in Gulshan when he went there for visa-related work. He also filed a general diary with Gulshan Police Station.

The “H” series motorcycle is registered to an individual in Mirpur. When police went to the address, they found that he had moved nearly three months ago. The landlord told the police that he was not a cop.

The Tejgaon DC said they are also looking into motorbikes, registered outside of Dhaka.

He said they were collecting CCTV footage of all streets leading away from the place of occurrence. It was seen that the accused went towards Bangla Motor.

In a general diary filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, Lata Samaddar, a lecturer of theatre and media studies at Tejgaon College, said the incident took place in front of Shezan Point shopping mall around 8:30am.

“A policeman in uniform was sitting there on a parked motorbike. When I was passing by, he started harassing me, seeing a teep on my forehead and hurling abuse at me. As I protested, he started the bike and tried to run me over. I tried to move away but got injured severely by falling,” said Lata, who is the wife of Dhaka University professor Malay Bala.