Torture in Custody
Khoksha OC to face court on Oct 16
The High Court yesterday summoned the officer-in-charge of Khoksha Police Station in Kushtia to appear before it on October 16 in connection with the torture on a woman and her daughter in police custody.
An HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar in its own move (suo moto) passed the order following a report published in the Prothom Alo on September 28.
The report says, police detained the duo from Rajbari on suspicion on September 9, and tortured them in the police station and the office of the Detective Branch of police in the district for six days. Police also implicated the victims in three separate murder cases, it said.
The HC also asked the government and police authorities to explain in 10 days why they should not be directed to take action against the responsible persons.
Supreme Court lawyer Fahima Nasrin Munni placed the report before the HC.
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