Ukhiya OC, 3 others sued for ‘torturing college student’

A case has been filed against Officer-in-Charge of Ukhiya Police Station and three other policemen for allegedly torturing a college student at the police station.

The girl filed the case with Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 in Cox's Bazar yesterday, reports our staff correspondent.

The accused are: Morjina Aktar, officer-in-charge (OC), Inspector (investigation) ABM Nurul Islam, Assistant Sub-inspector Md Shamim of Ukhiya Police Station and Constable Md Sumon of Morichya Police Checkpost under the police station.

The court's Judge Jebunnesa Ayesha accepted the case and asked additional superintendent of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the incident, said the tribunal's special public prosecutor Ekramul Huda.

The 22-year-old girl, a resident of Kalarmarchhara union in Maheshkhali upazila, was in a relationship with Constable Sumon, the case statement said.

When she wanted to get married, she was "tortured by the police on July 7", the statement said.

Sumon in early July met with the girl at a room near Khuniapalong union parishad building and after that he did not communicate with her.

Later, she went to the police station and told OC Morjina about the matter but the OC "started to assault her instead of filing the complaint around 11:30pm on July 7", she said.

Several police personnel, who were present there, also tortured her at the police station; she was released the following day, she claimed.

She received treatment at a Chakaria Hospital and later at Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital on July 9.

She said, "I have taken legal steps as I was tortured by police and now I want justice."