SHARIFUL ISLAM

A police officer told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday that he was forced by a senior officer to conceal pellet injuries in the inquest report of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayed, who was killed in Rangpur at the beginning of the July uprising.

Testifying as a prosecution witness in the case filed over Sayed’s killing, Sub-Inspector Md Tariqul Islam said that around 4:30pm on July 16 last year, he was informed from Tajhat Police Station that a body required an inquest at Rangpur Medical College Hospital. There he learnt that Sayed had been killed in police firing in front of the university. The hospital was tense and heavily guarded, he added.

Around 7:00pm, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kotwali

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