CID official sued on charge of demanding bribe
An officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Kushtia has been sued on charge of demanding bribe as condition for continuing investigation in a murder case.
Khairul Islam of Takimara village in Kushtia Sadar upazila on Thursday filed the case with the court of Judicial Magistrate Touhidul Islam who ordered another Judicial Magistrate Sanaul Haq to conduct an inquiry into the matter and submit report within a week.
Complainant of the case, Khairul Islam of Takimara village said a group of criminals killed his father Rahat Ali over a village feud on March 23 last year and he filed a murder case accusing 21 people including former chairman of Bottail union parishad Sahin Salauddin as prime accused.
The case was later transferred to CID from Kushtia model police station.
"CID Sub-Inspector Akidul Islam, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, called the plaintiff side to give their deposition at his office and all 13 witnesses went to the CID office on March 13," Khiarul said in his case filed with the judicial magistrate's court on Thursday.
"At one stage of recording deposition, IO Akidul demanded Tk 2 lakh as bribe from me to continue investigation in the case. He also said that otherwise the case will be dismissed.
"I asked IO Akidul to go to my village home to discuss the matter with my family members. When the CID officer went there on March 15, we offered him Tk 50,000 but he declined to accept it and demanded 'full amount' of Tk 2 lakh,” Khairul alleged in his case.
"Then we expressed our inability to give the money to the CID officer. Detective Branch (DB) of police of Kushtia on April 20 arrested Akmol Hossain, younger brother of Mokammel Hossain, one of the witnesses in the murder case. The CID officer phoned me and said that this arrest would not have happened if I had given him the money. He also threatened me of more such arrests until the payment,” Khairul said in his case.
When contacted, Judicial Magistrate Sanaul Haq said investigation in the case is going on.
As this correspondent contacted CID Sub-Inspector Akidul Islam for his version, he said he would not make any comment as the matter is now under judicial inquiry.
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