SI Masud suspended

Police sub-inspector Masud Shikder has been suspended over torturing Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby.

Maruf Hossain Sardar, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) deputy commissioner of its public relation wing, confirmed this to Prothom Alo on Saturday.

The sub-inspector of Mohammadpur police station on Monday was closed on charge of threatening the Bangladesh Bank official with death as a tactic to extort money from him.

On 9 January, the SI, Masud, and some constables detained Golam Rabby in Mohammadpur in the capital claiming that Rabby was carrying Yaba, according to the victim.

Rabby then alleged that a constable caught him up from behind around 11:00pm on Saturday when he was walking down a street in Mohammadpur on his way to his Kalyanpur residence from the residence of one of his aunts.

“You have Yaba in your possession,” the policeman shouted at him and took him to SI Masud Shikder and the SI raised the same allegation.

As Rabby refused the claim, the policemen took him to a police van and tortured brutally demanding Tk 0.5 million.

The policemen allegedly threatened that Rabby would be killed in “crossfire” should he refuse to give the police Tk 0.5 million.

At one stage, the police van carrying Rabby roamed different city streets in search of Yaba so that the police could show Rabby with Yaba, but the police attempt went in vain.

On Sunday morning, Rabby filed a written allegation against SI Masud Shikhder with the Mohammadpur police station.