Torture of 2 students
HC summons Magura OC, SI
The High Court yesterday summoned the officer-in-charge (OC) and a sub-inspector (SI) of Magura Police Station to appear before it on March 12 on charge of torturing two college students.
It passed the order following a report published in the Daily Shokaler Khabor on March 2 with a photograph on the police torture.
The report said the Magura police on February 29 tortured Maradona and Habib, two accused in an abduction case, by tying them with handcuffs and hanging them from the ceiling.
OC Munshi Asaduzzaman and SI Nuruzzaman have to appear before the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim by 10:30 am on March 12 to explain their conducts.
In a suo moto move, the court directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to investigate the incident and submit a report to it in four weeks.
It also issued a rule upon the home secretary, IGP, superintendent of police (SP) of Magura, OC Asaduzzaman and SI Nuruzzaman to explain in 10 days why the OC and SI should not be prosecuted for torturing the two students.
Advocate Manzill Murshid placed the newspaper report before the HC bench for necessary order.
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