Destroying Evidence
3 cops asked to face court on May 4
A Dhaka court yesterday asked three policemen to appear before it on May 4 for their explanation why they had destroyed evidence (alamat) of the Rehana Akhter Bakul murder case of Mymensingh district.
Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 passed the order after Special Public Prosecutor Abu Abdullah submitted a petition.
The policemen are Shahid Shokrana, court inspector of Mymensingh Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court, court sub-inspector Habibur Rahman, and court sub-inspector (retd) Ibrahim Khalil.
The three policemen had earlier submitted a petition with the First Class Magistrate's Court of the district where they said the case was disposed of on July 26, 1998 and the accused constable Rafiqul Islam (husband of the victim) and his brother Nazrul Islam were acquitted of the charges.
They submitted another petition for destroying evidence of the case saying the case was “disposed of.” Later, the magistrate granted their petition.
Meantime, the tribunal asked concerned policemen to place the evidence before it on the scheduled date while recording statement of a witness but one of the policemen had submitted a petition with the tribunal on April 25 saying that the evidence was earlier destroyed.
Earlier on different dates, Mymensingh District and Sessions Judge's Court recorded statements of 19 prosecution witnesses. Later, the case was transferred to the tribunal for its quick disposal.
Bakul was killed by her husband as her family failed to give dowry at Jatia village in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh on May 7, 1997.
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