Army personnel have done the right thing by detaining the seven officers of police’s Detective Branch (DB) with ransom money in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. After suspension, they were sent to Cox’s Bazar Police Lines. Monirul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of the Cox’s Bazar DB unit, later said that a five-member committee was also formed to investigate the charges against the policemen. DB officers sent to jailThe suspended DB officers are Sub-Inspectors Moniruzzaman, Abul Kalam Azad and Firoz Ahmad, Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASI) Mostafa and Alauddin, and Constables Mostafa Azam and Al Amin. Our Cox’s Bazar correspondent Abdul Aziz reported that the seven policemen were produced before the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mosharraf Hossain around 11am on Thursday.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 26, 2017 20:48 UTC