July 6 Attack on Khulna Lawyers
Case against 9 policemen
Nine policemen were sued yesterday on charge of attacking and severely injuring eleven lawyers 'without any provocation' on July 6 in front of Khulna District Bar Association.
Advocate Sheikh Rafiquzzaman, one of the eleven victims, filed the petition case with the court of senior metropolitan magistrate Swapan Kumar Sarker.
Twenty-two lawyers including president of Khulna District Bar Association advocate Masud Hossain Rony have been named as prosecution witnesses.
The court yesterday ordered the prosecution witnesses to appear on September 7 for their deposition.
The nine accused are Assistant Police Commissioner (Kotwali Zone) Md Alimuzzaman, OC of Khulna Sadar police station SM Kamruzzaman, Inspector (Forces) Md Shajahan, Sub-Inspector Pushpen Debnath, constables Tarek, Mukti Biswas, Najibul Islam, Kamrul Islam and Joynal.
The complainant stated in his petition that the accused attacked a procession brought out by lawyers on last July 6 in support of 4-party alliance called hartal for retaining the caretaker government system.
Eleven lawyers were severely injured as police charged baton without any provocation.
The injured lawyers are Abul Hossain Howlader, Khan Liakat Ali, Golam Mowla, Anurag Banerjee, Nurul Hasan Ruba, Abdullah Hossain Bacchu, Mohsin Jamaddar, Anisur Rahman Khan, Lashkar Shah Alam, Hafizur Rahman and SR Faruque.
The excesses done by the accused in dealing with a peaceful procession have disgraced us socially as we were abused in filthy language and baton charged without provocation.
We have been compelled to take shelter of the court to seek justice as number two accused OC SM Kamruzzaman of Khulna Sadar police station refused to receive our FIR on July 8, goes the complaint.
Contacted, number one accused AC Alimuzzaman denied allegation of any excess done while dealing with pro-hartal lawyers.
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