Torture of Shanta
Magistrate asked to submit supplementary probe report
Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday directed a magistrate to submit within seven days the supplementary probe report on the incident of torture of Shahin Sultana Shanta by police during an opposition protest on March 12.Judge Kaniz Akhter Nasrina Khanam of the Fourth Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression directed the Metropolitan Magistrate Shafique Anwar, who had earlier conducted the judicial inquiry and submitted the report. The judge said the probe report did not mention anything about Shanta's going to police station after the incident to file a case. So the magistrate was directed to collect report about it. The judge issued the order following the filing of a naraji (no-confidence) petition against the opinion of Shafique's probe report. On March 14, Shanta filed a case with the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM), Dhaka against two deputy commissioners of police, a constable and 14 other unnamed policemen and policewomen. Shanta filed another case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on March 19 where she also accused the same policemen of attempting to violate her. The court ordered a judicial probe into her allegation the same day.
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