The judicial committee investigating the alleged police torture on Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar has found that he had been tortured in detention on false charges.
The law ministry's joint secretary Ashish Ranjan Da said in the report that police had detained Kadar on suspicion, shown him arrested over false charges and tortured him in custody. Ashish, now the law secretary, led the one-man committee formed in July at the directive of the High Court.
Deputy attorney general A B M Altaf Hossain presented the report to the bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Jahangir Hossain on Monday. He told that the hearing will take place in the afternoon.
Police had done these without verifying his statement and identity, the report said.
"Police's slipshodness in duty, fancifulness and tendency to implicate someone in false charges were observed," it added.
Police claim they detained Kadar with another from Khilgaon while they had been preparing for a robbery in the early hours of July 16. But the Dhaka University student of biochemistry and microbiology said police had picked him up in front of the Anticorruption Commission headquarters in Segunbagicha while he was on his way back to campus.
The university students have been maintaining that the arrest was meant for harassment.
The High Court intervened when news reports said Kadar was allegedly tortured in police custody.
Kadar had told the High Court that Khilgaon police chief Helel Uddin, sub-inspector Alam Badsha and assistant sub-inspector Shahidur Rahman had severely assaulted him. The High Court ordered suspension of the trio following the allegations.
Kadar's family also alleged police torture and false case. Manowara Begum, his mother, had also lodged a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission. Kadar's father, Abdul Rouf is an education officer at Debidwar in Comilla.
The judicial enquiry committee made four recommendations to prevent a repeat of such incidents.
The proposals include directing police to be careful in establishing an individual's involvement in a crime for making an arrest. Secondly, issuance of directives from the top of the police administration for properly adhering to the directives of the law in force, including the order from the High Court, to not torture any individual in police custody.
The other proposals are to be certain about primary indicating involvement of an individual in any case before filing it, and to file cases based on true incidents and to pass stringent directives by the top level authorities of police to prevent anyone, in any condition, from filing any case with false information hiding the true incidents.
The law ministry's joint secretary Ashish Ranjan Da said in the report that police had detained Kadar on suspicion, shown him arrested over false charges and tortured him in custody. Ashish, now the law secretary, led the one-man committee formed in July at the directive of the High Court.
Deputy attorney general A B M Altaf Hossain presented the report to the bench of justices A H M Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Jahangir Hossain on Monday. He told that the hearing will take place in the afternoon.
Police had done these without verifying his statement and identity, the report said.
"Police's slipshodness in duty, fancifulness and tendency to implicate someone in false charges were observed," it added.
Police claim they detained Kadar with another from Khilgaon while they had been preparing for a robbery in the early hours of July 16. But the Dhaka University student of biochemistry and microbiology said police had picked him up in front of the Anticorruption Commission headquarters in Segunbagicha while he was on his way back to campus.
The university students have been maintaining that the arrest was meant for harassment.
The High Court intervened when news reports said Kadar was allegedly tortured in police custody.
Kadar had told the High Court that Khilgaon police chief Helel Uddin, sub-inspector Alam Badsha and assistant sub-inspector Shahidur Rahman had severely assaulted him. The High Court ordered suspension of the trio following the allegations.
Kadar's family also alleged police torture and false case. Manowara Begum, his mother, had also lodged a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission. Kadar's father, Abdul Rouf is an education officer at Debidwar in Comilla.
The judicial enquiry committee made four recommendations to prevent a repeat of such incidents.
The proposals include directing police to be careful in establishing an individual's involvement in a crime for making an arrest. Secondly, issuance of directives from the top of the police administration for properly adhering to the directives of the law in force, including the order from the High Court, to not torture any individual in police custody.
The other proposals are to be certain about primary indicating involvement of an individual in any case before filing it, and to file cases based on true incidents and to pass stringent directives by the top level authorities of police to prevent anyone, in any condition, from filing any case with false information hiding the true incidents.
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