The High Court yesterday directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a departmental inquiry into the incident that an inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Satkhira police called a fish trader to his office despite having no specific case against the businessman.

The court also asked the IGP to take next steps to this effect on holding the inquiry.

The court passed the order after accepting an unconditional apology offered by CID Inspector Sheikh Mesbah Uddin.

The HC Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah came up with the order after disposing of a rule earlier issued by the court on October 24, Barrister ABM Altaf Hossain, counsel for Mesbah, told The Daily Star.

The HC earlier asked the CID inspector to appear before it yesterday to explain about a notice issued on August 23. In the notice, the inspector called Abdus Samad Gazi of Sreeula area in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira to appear before his office as part of an investigation into an allegation lodged by one Mintu Chowdhury.

CID cannot initiate any investigation against anybody and cannot ask anybody to appear before its office under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) without any specific case.