Cop presses for murder case withdrawal: Complainant
The complainant of a murder case alleged that a police official has been pressing him to withdraw an under trial case which he filed for "killing" his sister.
In a written statement, Jamal Miah of village Rajapur in Madhabpur upazila under Habiganj alleged that Sub-Inspector (SI) Kamal Hossain of Madhabpur Police Station of the district has been pressing him to withdraw the case which is now under trial at the additional district & session judge court.
Jamal Miah, a poor farmer, made the allegation at a press conference at Habiganj Press Club on Saturday afternoon demanding departmental enquiry and action against the police officer.
Getting a phone call, Jamal went to the police station in the evening of March 30 this year and found the accused of his sister's murder case sitting in front of the police officer, Jamal alleged. Later, the SI asked him to withdraw the case but he denied the proposal. At one stage, SI Kamal gave him a good beating in the hajat room and threatened to send him to jail after filing a drug possessing case against him, alleged Jamal in the statement.
Following the day, the police officer produced Jamal before the Upazila Nirbahi Officer, also executive magistrate, showing him arrested in a case for possessing two Yaba tablets. The magistrate asked for producing him before a mobile court. It was done accordingly but the magistrate acquitted him of the charges as there was no witness or evidence, said Jamal.
However, the police officer then sent him to the jail hajat through a judicial magistrate court in the drug case. Spending 18 days in the jail hajat, he got bail, Jamal claimed.
Jamal said police recovered his sister Marufa Khatun's hanging body at her husband's house at Rajapur village on April 7, 2006. Later on April 9, Jamal filed the murder case accusing 13 of her father-in-law's family. Sub-Inspector Moloy submitted a charge sheet against six of them in the murder case.
Contacted yesterday, SI Kamal Hossain refuted the allegation and said Jamal is "an addict" and he had filed the case against Jamal after recovery of two Yaba tablets from him.
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