Former officer-in-charge Abul Hasan. Photo: Collected
A team of Teknaf police station arrested former Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abul Hasan of Jatrabari police station was arrested in a case filed over the murder of a colleague's son.
The arrestee Abul Hasan is in the custody of Cox's Bazar district police and will be sent to Dhaka, said Cox's Bazar Police Superintendent Mohammad Rehmat Ullah.
Meanwhile, another inspector of Jatrabari police station, Zakir Hossain, who is an accused in the murder case, yet to be arrested.
Earlier, in the day, a Dhaka court placed Sub-Inspector Shahadat Ali on a six-day remand in a case filed over the murder case.
According to the case documents, Imam Hasan Tayem , a student of Government Adamjee Nagar MW College in Narayanganj and the son of Rajarbagh Police Lines SI Md Moynal Hossain Bhuiyan, and two of his friends went to a tea stall in Kazla area in Jatrabari on July 20.
The quota reform movement activists were staging protests in the area. Following the order of DC Mohammad Iqbal, ADC Shamim and AC Tanjil, policemen suddenly started firing tear shells, rubber bullets and life rounds, and throwing sound grenades at the protesters.
During the incident, Tayem and his friends hid inside the tea stall, but the policemen brought them out from there and OC Zakir ordered them to run. As they started running, policemen shot at them in cold blood, killing Tayem on the spot.
On August 20, Parvin Akhter, the mother of the victim, filed the case against Md Iqbal Hossain, the deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Wari Division, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Shakil Mohammad Shamim, Assistant Commissioner (AC) Tanzil Ahmed, Jatrabari police station Officer-in-Charge Abul Hasan, Inspector Zakir and SI Shahadat Ali.
