�POLICE TORTURE� ON BB OFFICIAL
No bar to case filing against rogue cop
STAFF REPORTER
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon yesterday said there was no legal bar to file a case over the alleged police torture on Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi as the tenure of a Supreme Court stay in this regard has expired.
Khokon, a lawyer of tortured Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi, was addressing a press briefing at the media centre of Supreme Court Bar Association.
He said that the chamber judges order, which stayed the filing of a case over the incident, became ineffective as the tenure of that order expired after January 25.
On January 9, Golam Rabbi, 28, an Assistant Director of Bangladesh Bank, was allegedly tortured by Mohammadpur police Sub-Inspector (SI) Masud Shikder and some others in a police vehicle for refusing to pay a bribe of Tk 5 lakh.
The SI also threatened to implicate Rabbi in a drugs-relatyed case and threatened to kill him as well.
Later, the SI was suspended as primary investigation found the allegations true against him.
On January 18, the High Court, in response to a writ, directed the officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station to record the allegations of Golam Rabbi as a first information report (FIR).It also issued a rule asking to explain why the police torture on Rabbi should not be declared illegal and unconstitutional.
Later, on January 21, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique stayed the HC order until January 25 following a government petition against the HC order.
