HC denies bail to suspended SI

The High Court yesterday rejected three bail petitions of a suspended sub-inspector of Pallabi Police Station in three cases accusing him of torturing to death two people in custody.

The HC bench considered the pleas of Jahidur Rahman Khan to have not been placed before it properly. Jhut (scrap of fabrics from garment industries) trader Mahbubur Rahman Sujan and Istiaq Ahmed Johnny, a resident of Bihari camp in Mirpur, were allegedly tortured to death on February 8 and July 13 respectively last year, Deputy Attorney General Md Bashirullah told The Daily Star.

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Sujan's wife Momotaz Sultana Lucy and Johnny's father Imtiaz Hossain filed two cases with a Dhaka court last year under the Torture and Custodial Death (Protection) Act-2013, he said. Bashirullah said Pallabi police filed the third unnatural death case over Sujan's death. Jahid filed the petitions on November 1.