The officer-in-charge, three sub-inspectors and a constable of Jaintapur police station, and six others have been made accused in a case filed over the death of an accused in police custody. Rokeya Begum, mother of the victim Nazrul Islam Babu, filed the case with Sylhet’s Cognisance Court 1 on Thursday. The plaintiff’s lawyer Md Lala said that Babu had been picked up by the police on May 18 from his house in a case filed by Nasrin. After the death, the OC termed the death a suicide. Meanwhile, Additional Superintendent of Police Sugyan Chakma said that the autopsy report too showed suicide as reason behind the death of Babu.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 01, 2017 15:56 UTC