Torture of Wife
Court rejects cop report, orders fresh investigation
A Sylhet court yesterday ordered Detective Branch of Police to conduct fresh investigation into a case filed against a police sergeant by his wife.
Judge Biresh Chandra Sikder of the Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression passed the order after rejecting the final investigation report prepared by Officer-in-Charge Khondoker Naoroj of Kotwali Police Station, court sources informed.
Lipi Sultana Setu, wife of the sergeant Molla Taslim Hossain of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, prayed for rejecting the police report which acquitted Taslim, against whom she brought charges of torture.
In the case filed on April 21, 2011, Lipi alleged that Taslim developed an affair with a policewoman while serving in a United Nations peacekeeping mission and demanded dowry from her, otherwise threatened of divorce.
Since then she and her two sons were living in Dhaka, said Lipi.
Earlier Lipi had filed another case in the capital accusing Taslim of sending her divorce papers without following the legal procedures. On April 13, Taslim asked her to come to Sylhet to discuss over the matter but when she went there, he beat her mercilessly with some others, she said.
She was admitted to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital for the next two days. The police station at that time denied recording the complaint, she claimed.
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