{"id":6429,"date":"2014-12-20T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2015-11-29T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T10:36:40","slug":"torture-police-remand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2014\/12\/20\/torture-police-remand\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture in Police remand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writ Petition No. 11138 of 2014<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Petitioner:<\/strong> Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)<\/p>\n

Respondents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka.<\/li>\n
  2. Inspector General of Police, Police Headquarters, Fulbaria, Dhaka.<\/li>\n
  3. Commissioner of Police, Sylhet Metropolitan Police, Naiorpul, Sylhet.<\/li>\n
  4. Office-in-Charge, Kotwali Police Station, Sylhet Metropolitan Police, Sylhet<\/li>\n
  5. Jailor, Sylhet Central jail, Sylhet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A news item published in the daily Sangbad dated 20.11.2014 under title “\u09b8\u09bf\u09b2\u09c7\u099f \u09b0\u09bf\u09ae\u09be\u09a8\u09cd\u09a1\u09c7 \u098f\u09a8\u09c7 \u09a8\u09be\u09b0\u09c0\u09b0 \u0989\u09aa\u09b0 \u09ac\u09b0\u09cd\u09ac\u09b0\u09cb\u099a\u09bf\u09a4 \u09a8\u09bf\u09b0\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09a4\u09a8” stating that a woman Anita Vattyacharya was subjected to torture by police during remand. The same news was also published in the Daily Prothom Alo and Daily Manabjamin on the same date. According to the news report, Anita was taken for three days remand as a suspected accused of a criminal case. During remand Office-in-charge (Investigation), Mr. Monirul Islam and Sub-Inspector Hasina Akhter alias Akhi of Katwali police Station, Sylhet tortured Anita in an inhuman manner. O.C Monirul pushed wine to her stomach inserting a pipe into her throat. He also put the boot on her throat to give confessional statements about the abduction. Even he threatened her to rape. Sub-Inspector Hasina Akhter Akhi severely assaulted on her sensitive organ. Moreover Anita was subjected to torture in various manners. Due to the continuous torture in three days remand Anita became critically sick and she was sent to the court by the police. As per direction of the learned Magistrate police took Anita to Osmani Medical Collage and Hospital for medical treatment. But avoiding the advice of the on-duty doctor to admit Anita in the hospital, police took her to Sylhet Central Jail after giving some minor treatment. Jail authority refuse to receive Anita, but later on they received her and admitted her to Osmani Medical College and Hospital.<\/p>\n

    Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) filed a writ petition in the above mentioned incident and the same was moved on 30.11.2014 before a Division Bench of the Hon\u2019ble High Court Division comprised with Mr.Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Mr. Justice Abu Taher Md. Saifur Rahman. After hearing the Hon\u2019bel court issued a Rule Nisi on the respondents to show cause as to why they shall not be directed to refrain from unwarranted and abusive exercise of power resulting torture to the citizen and as to why the respondents should not be directed to take departmental and criminal actions against the persons responsible for torture in custody to Anita Vattachariya wife of Kishore Vattachariya of village Alishakool, Police station-Shreemongol, District- Moulovibazar, at Katwali Police Station, Sylhet. The Court was also pleased to direct the respondents to submit report as to what steps have been taken against the persons responsible for torture in police custody to Anita Vattachariya at Katwali Police Station, Sylhet\u00a0 and to submit report before this Hon\u2019ble Court on or before 06-01-2015.<\/p>\n

    Advocate Abu Obaidur Rahman conducted the Writ petition and Advocate Abantee Nurul, Mahjabin Rabbani and Md. Samiul Alam Sarkar assisted him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Writ Petition No. 11138 of 2014 Petitioner: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) Respondents: Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka. Inspector General of Police, Police Headquarters, Fulbaria, Dhaka. Commissioner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-legal-action","category-writ-petitions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}