Gaibandha SP transferred to Khagrachhari
The home ministry transferred Ashraful Islam, superintendent of Gaibandha police, to Khagrachhari yesterday, 15 days after the High Court ordered for immediate withdrawal of the SP for not cooperating in a judicial inquiry into the torching of Santal houses.
Mashrkure Rahman Khaled, a deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of police in the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, will replace him.
According to a home ministry order, Ashraful will now be the commander of 6 Armed Police Battalion (APBn) in Khagrachhari's Mahalchhari.
Commander of the 6 APBn Jamshed Ali has been transferred to Naval Police in Dhaka as a SP, it said.
On February 7, the HC ordered the authorities concerned for immediate withdrawal of Ashraful for not cooperating properly in an inquiry over the torching of Santal houses during an eviction drive in November last year.
The HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath had passed the order after holding a brief hearing on the inquiry report prepared by the chief judicial magistrate of Gaibandha.
The chief judicial magistrate in his report said three policemen, one of whom was from the DB, and some locals were directly involved in the torching of houses, but he could not identify the people.
The CJM said when he had asked the Gaibandha SP for the names and designations of the policemen and the DB official concerned, the police official did not provide those.
The HC had also directed the authorities concerned to withdraw all police personnel who were on duty on November 6 in Changari Beel, where the Santal houses were set on fire.
After the Santal incident, law and order in Gaibandha again came to the fore after the Awami League lawmaker from Gaibandha-1 Manzurul Islam Liton was shot dead in his Sundarganj house on December 31 last year.
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