HC summons 2 cops for detaining two women
UNB
The High Court yesterday summoned two policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Madaripur Sadar Police Station, to appear before it on March 29 over keeping two women detained for long after detaching their children on breast milk, reports UNB. An HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah asked OC Ziaul Morshed and sub-inspector Mahtab to appear before it in person and explain the incident. Following a writ petition, it also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why the inhuman incident of keeping two mothers into police custody for 13 hours after detaching their children on breast milk away from them should not be declared illegal and unlawful. The Home Secretary, IGP, DIG, Madaripur Police Super and OC of Sadar Police Station were made respondents to the rule which is returnable in four weeks.
Advocate Fawzia Karim, President of Bangladesh National Woman Lawyers Association (BNWLA), Advocate Shovana Banu and Naznin Ara Ahmed stood for the petitioner.
