Militants’ escape: Another cop suspended

Another policeman has been suspended for negligence in duties during the snatching away of two condemned convicts from a Dhaka court premises 11 days ago.

Constable Mahmud Alam was suspended on Tuesday, Jasim Uddin, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star.

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Earlier, the DMP suspended six police personnel, including an inspector, on the same grounds.

Unidentified people attacked police personnel and snatched Moinul Hasan Shamim and Abu Siddiq Sohel, both operatives of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam, from the court premises on November 20.

The two were among eight militants sentenced to death by a Dhaka court in February last year for murdering Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan in 2015.