Torture of Woman: Bogura OC, another cop sued

Mother of a young housewife filed a case against two policemen, including Officer in Charge (OC) of Shibganj Police Station SM Badiuzzaman, for torturing her daughter in police custody.

The other accused in the case is Ratan Kumar Roy, then a sub-inspector (SI) of the police station, now serving at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

The plaintiff lodged the case with Bogura District and Sessions Judge's Court under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013 on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Judge Noresh Chandra Sarkar took the case into cognisance and ordered the authorities concerned to investigate the case by a first class magistrate and submit the report within January 7, 2021.

According to the case statement, Ramim Hasan Rimon, 20, a neighbouring youth of the victim woman, entered the housewife's room around 1:30pm on November 24, and tried to rape her forcibly, when her husband was not present at home.

Hearing her cry for help, neighbours rushed to the spot and rescued the victim.

They also caught Ramim, who had been offering illicit proposal to the victim for long, while he was trying to flee the scene.

Meanwhile, when victim's family members were taking preparation to file a case against Ramim, his relatives went to the victim's house and asked SI Ratan over phone to appear on the spot in a bid to save the culprit.

Later, SI Ratan took both Ramim and the victim woman to Shibganj Police Station, assuring her of filing an attempt to rape case against Ramim.

But surprisingly, when they reached the police station the same afternoon, OC Badiuzzaman verbally abused the victim instead of recording her complaint.

When she protests the OC's misbehaviour, SI Ratan physically assaulted her first and then put her in the lock-up of the police station.

The following day, police produced Ramim and the victim before a Bogura court, bring false allegation against the victim for her involvement in anti-social activity.

After hearing, the court granted their bail, plaintiff's lawyer Abdul Based said.

Contacted, OC Badiuzzaman refuted the allegation brought against him and denied to make any further comments in this regard.

While talking to this correspondent over phone SI Ratan said villagers caught the woman and her friend Ramim from the spot.  Later, after discussing with his high officials he filed a general diary (GD) with the police station in this regard before producing them to the court.