HC asks lower court to resume case against 3 Lakshmipur cops

The High Court yesterday directed a lower court to revive a case against five persons including the then three law enforcers of Lakshmipur's Ramganj Police Station over the alleged custodial torture of a man, Saiful Islam Sumon, in 2011.

The court also ordered Lakshmipur's sessions judge court to take necessary steps against the then officer-in-charge, Lokman Hossain, sub-inspectors Sharif and Momin and two others and proceed in accordance with the law.

The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain gave the directive after holding the final hearing on a revision petition filed by the complainant with the HC challenging a lower court order which dismissed the case.

The directive's grounds could not be known as the full text was not released. 

Citing from the revision petition, Deputy Attorney General Shaikh AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir told The Daily Star that police detained Sumon, tortured him, damaged his eyes by draining out the insides using a syringe and filed a case against him under the arms act in August 2011 at the instigation of some local influential people.

Sumon's father Shamsun Noor Patwari filed the case with the sessions court on August 12, 2014 against the five and the court on September 2014 asked the district's acting chief judicial magistrate to conduct a probe.

The magistrate submitted a report on August 5, 2015 to the court saying the allegations were not found to be true. The court accepted the report on October 20, 2015 and dismissed the case, DAG Moniruzzaman added.