Torture on DU student: HC upholds 3 years’ jail of ex-Khilgaon OC

The High Court yesterday upheld the lower court verdict that sentenced former OC of Khilgaon Police Station Md Helal Uddin to three years in jail for torturing former DU student Abdul Kadar in 2011.

The HC also ordered Helal, now on bail, to surrender to the trial court in three months.

The bench of Justice Fatema Najib delivered the verdict. Kadar, now a lecturer at the chemistry department of Cumilla Victoria Government College -- expressed satisfaction at the judgement.

On July 16 in 2011, some plainclothesmen from the police station stopped Kadar at Segunbagicha while he was returning to his dorm from Eskaton. They beat Kadar, then a DU student, with sticks, as per a case filed by him in January 2012.

Later, police implicated Kadar in three false cases. But following media outcry, the HC on July 28, 2011, ordered police to probe into the incident. Kadar was acquitted of all charges in 2012.