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SI closed for beating one

17 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Barisal

Abul Khair, SI of Barisal Kotwali Police Station, was closed to Barisal Metropolitan Police Line yesterday for torturing a rickshaw-van puller. Abdur Rahim, commissioner in-charge of BMP told newsmen that the action was taken after the departmental probe found SI Khair guilty. Sources said rickshaw- van puller Abul Kalam, 25, was mercilessly beaten up by Khair on Monday in Munshir Garage area after his van and a police pickup collided there.