Probe report about refusal to record GD faces questions

The police probe body, formed to investigate the allegation of refusal to record a general diary of slain blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy, did not take statements of one key witness, raising questions about the investigation process.

The three-member committee submitted its probe report to the commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday. After the killing of Niladri, his wife Asha Moni alleged that Khilgaon police had refused to record the GD on his security a couple of months back. The blogger also mentioned on his Facebook post about the refusal.

On May 14, Niladri and his friend Dev Joyti Rudro went to the police station for filing the GD, according to Asha Moni and Rudro.

"We heard that police already had submitted the report but no police officer contacted me on that issue," Rudro told The Daily Star last night.

Tracking their cellphones, the probe report said Niladri and Rudro were somewhere near the police station on that day but it could not confirm whether they went there to file the GD or for other purposes, a police official of DMP told The Daily Star.

Motijheel division of DMP formed the probe committee after protests sparked against police negligence.

On Friday, four unidentified assailants posing as possible tenants entered the Goran residence of Niladri in Khilkhet and hacked him dead confining his wife Asha and her sister.

No one was arrested till filing of this report last night.