Death in police custody

SC orders ex-police AC Akram to surrender

The Supreme Court yesterday directed former Police Assistant Commissioner Md Akram Hossain to surrender before the trial court within a week in a case filed over death of a youth in police custody in 1998.
A four-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after granting a leave-to-appeal filed by the government  against a High Court verdict in 2011 that acquitted Akram of the charge of murdering student Shahin Reza Rubel. After the SC order, Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir said, “The Appellate Division has  granted our appeal and directed Akram to surrender before the trial court by a week.” On July 23, 1998, a team of DB police led by the then SI Hayatul Islam detained Rubel under Section 54 of the CrPC.

 

 

Death in police custody

SC orders ex-police AC Akram to surrender

The Supreme Court yesterday directed former Police Assistant Commissioner Md Akram Hossain to surrender before the trial court within a week in a case filed over death of a youth in police custody in 1998. A four-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after granting a leave-to-appeal filed by the government against a High Court verdict in 2011 that acquitted Akram of the charge of murdering student Shahin Reza Rubel. After the SC order, Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir said, The Appellate Division has granted our appeal and directed Akram to surrender before the trial court by a week. On July 23, 1998, a team of DB police led by the then SI Hayatul Islam detained Rubel under Section 54 of the CrPC.