Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) suspended two more police officials of its Detective Branch (DB), for allegedly torturing a journalist of a private TV channel recently.

The suspended members are Abdur Rahim and Rasel Parvez, both are constables of BMP Detective Branch.

BMP Assistant Commissioner (Detective Branch) Nasir Uddin Mallik said the two were suspended on Thursday, upon finding evidence of their involvement in torturing Sumon Hasan, a journalist of privately-run television channel DBC news.

Earlier, another constable Maksudul Haque was also suspended in connection to the same incident, he added.

Sub-inspector Abdul Bashar, assistant sub-inspectors Swapan and Akther Hossain and constables Hasan and Saiful Islam were also found guilty, according to the departmental probe report.

A case will be filed in this connection, the commissioner added.

Earlier on Wednesday, eight members of DB police were closed to the district police lines over allegation of torture, and a probe committee was formed.

On March 13, a DB team, led by Sub-Inspector Abul Bashar, had an alteration with Sumon Hasan during a police drive near old "Beauty Hall" in the city.

At one stage, the DB team swooped on the journalist leaving him unconscious.

The law enforcers then took Sumon to their office and tortured him again.

They also assaulted some senior journalists when they went to the DB office the same day.

Later, the journalists informed the matter to BMP Deputy Commissioner Golam Rauf who regretted the incident and ordered actions against the eight DB men.

Sumon alleged that the DB team attacked him when he asked about the drive.

"They got furious when I introduce myself as a journalist," he alleged, adding that the law men also threatened to implicate him in a drug case and kill him in crossfire.