Failing to Record Case
HC summons two Comilla cops
The High Court, over a newspaper report yesterday, summoned the officer-in-charge and a sub-inspector of Meghna Police Station in Comilla on February 23 for not recording a case over a housewife's murder.
The daily Prothom Alo yesterday reported that housewife Soma Aktar, 20, from Narayanganj, was tortured to death over dowry on February 5 by her in-laws at Chalibhanga village of Meghna upazila in Comilla.
Local arbitrators at a recent meeting in a Narayanganj village fined the in-laws Tk 5 lakh. Meanwhile, police did not record any case after hearing the incident, says the report.
The court also issued a rule upon the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police of Narayanganj to explain in three weeks why they should not be directed to take action against the arbitrators.
Supreme Court lawyer Sheikh Ali Ahmed Khokon placed the newspaper report before the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim for necessary order.
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