Decision on charge framing against SI Jahidur April 17

A Dhaka court decides on April 17 whether charges will be framed against five persons, including three former policemen of Pallabi Police Station, for killing Ishtiaq Ahmed Jonny in police custody in February 2014.  

The accused are Sub-inspector Jahidur Rahman Khan, assistant sub-inspectors Md Kamruzzaman Minto and Rashedul Hassan and police informers Sumon and Russell. Of them, Jahidur and Sumon are now in jail.

After completing the hearing on charge framing yesterday, Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka set the date. 

According to the prosecution, it was alleged that Jonny, his brother Imtiaz Hassan Rocky and three others were detained by a police team, led by SI Jahidur, on February 9, 2014, when they were celebrating a pre-wedding programme of Jonny's friend at Irani camp in Pallabi.

Informer Sumon and his friends Russell and Nasim called police after Jonny slapped Sumon for stalking women at the programme.

Later, Jonny, 28, was allegedly tortured to death. He was a resident of Talab camp in Mirpur-11.

Following the incident, the victim's brother, Rocky, on August 7 that year filed a case against nine people, including SI Jahidur.

Later, a metropolitan magistrate conducted a judicial inquiry and found Jahidur and four others' involvement.  

Jahidur is also accused of being invoved in the custodial death of garment-waste trader Mahabubur Rahman Sujan at Mirpur Police Station.