Missing of Two Shibir Men
HC summons chief cop
The High Court yesterday summoned the inspector general of police to appear before it on May 16 in connection with the incident of missing of two Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders at Savar.
The court passed the order following hearings on two separate writ petitions filed by two relatives of the missing leaders.
The petitioners claimed that Rab personnel in plain clothes detained the Shibir leaders -- Al Mukaddas and Md Waliullah -- at Nabinagar in Savar on February 4 night while they were going to Islamic University in Kushtia by a bus of Hanif Enterprise.
But the Rab said they had not detained the two leaders, according to the statements of the petitions that were filed on February 12.
The IGP has to appear before the bench of Justice Abdul Awal and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal by 10:30am on the day to explain progress of investigation into the missing incident, according to yesterday's court order.
Following the petitions, the HC issued two separate rules on February 15 asking the government officials concerned to explain why they should not be directed to produce Mukaddas and Waliullah before it to prove that the duo were not detained illegally.
Earlier, police filed a case after a general diary was lodged with Ashulia Police Station by the relatives of the missing leaders.
During a hearing on the rules on May 2, a sub inspector of the police station, who is investigating the case, appeared before the HC bench as per the court order.
But, the sub-inspector could not give any satisfactory reply to the questions of the judges over the detention of the Shibir leaders, Tajul Islam, a counsel for the petitioners, told The Daily Star.
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