Jail guards torture youth
Guards of Barisal Central Jail on Sunday evening picked up a youth and allegedly tortured him inside the jail compound following a trivial matter.
Victim Anwar Hossain, 22, an auto-rickshaw driver, was rescued early Monday following intervention by journalists and human rights activists.
Witnesses said, a bicycle of Mohim Hawlader, a class-VIII student of Town School, was stolen a few days ago from Chandmari area in the town.
On Sunday afternoon, he saw the bicycle at Bangabandhu Udyan being used by Sohel Bepari, son of a tailor working at Dhaka Central Jail.
Mohim asked his maternal uncle Anwar to catch the boy while he himself went home to bring the documents of the bicycle.
Sohel, meanwhile, called the jail guard colleagues of his father.
When Mohim returned to the spot one and a half hours later, local people informed him that some jail guards picked up Anwar and took him inside the jail compound.
After a hectic search family members found injured Anwar inside the jail compound. Local journalists and human rights activists, on information, rushed to the jail, rescued Anwar and sent him to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital early Monday.
Md Sagir Mia, senior jail superintendent and in-charge of Barisal Central Jail, yesterday said both side agreed to amicably settle the matter after the jail authorities agreed to bear the treatment cost of the victim and take action against the offenders.
Jailor Abu Sayem said, three jail guards -- Nur Hossain, Ujjal and Siddik -- have been identified. But the authorities only cautioned them as they do not have the jurisdiction to punish the jail guards, he added.
Deputy commissioner (DC) ASM Arifur Rahman said that the allegations would be investigated.
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