Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) is seriously concerned on the photograph and report of torturing two hartal supporter opposition student activists in police station on April 22, 2012 and also condemns and strongly protests such incident. As a public servant of a republic by constitution, no police officer, member of law enforcement agency or person has the power or right to torture any citizen in any situation. We have been observing with great disappointment that having no regard to the prevailing human rights or constitutional rights and by going far beyond the lawful powers, some officers of the law enforcement agencies have been in practice torturing, meting out undesirable treatment on different excess (or even going to the extent of killing). The incumbent incident is an extreme example of that. We hope that such activities will immediately be stopped, because these are not only violation of constitutional rights, but also are punishable offences.

We demand of the concerned authority to take action against the officer in charge of Khulna Sadar Police Station and his accomplices for this act.