Court orders probe into Tareq's death
A Dhaka court yesterday directed the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate a case filed for killing Majbah Uddin Tareq in the capital's Mughda in mid-September.
The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh gave the order after hearing the case filed by Tareq's father Abu Zafor Sikder with another Dhaka court on September 25, said sources.
He accused seven DB officials, a Bangladesh Bank official and his wife, and one of his brothers-in-law for murdering Tareq.
The DB members are Assistant Commissioner AKM Mahbubur Rahman, Inspector Nibaran Chandra Barman, Sub-inspector Shahin Md Amanullah, Assistant Sub-inspector Akhtaruzzaman and constables Asadul Haq, Momtaz Uddin and Khairul Islam.
The other accused are Khairul Alam Tutul, a joint director of Bangladesh Bank, his wife Salma Begum, a police official, and his brother-in-law Abdul Ahad Sohrab.
In his case statement, Zafor alleged that some detectives had tortured his son to death and then shot his body to make up a story that Tareq was killed in a “shootout” between criminals and DB personnel.
Police officials had been pressurising him for about two years to sell his land. As he refused to sell the land, DB men picked up Tareq, a garment worker at Adamjee EPZ in Narayanganj, from his home in Dania and killed him in a planned way, he alleged.
“I want justice for my son's killing,” Zafor told The Daily Star over the phone yesterday.
He claimed Tareq was neither a criminal nor was there any case or general diary against him.
According to DB police, Tareq was killed in the “gunfight” that ensued when the law enforcers went to recover arms in Mughda on September 14.
Soon after the incident, DB police filed two cases against Tareq with Mughda Police Station, Mughda police said.
Mughda, Jatrabari and Kadamtali police said as far as they knew there were no criminal records against Tareq before the two lawsuits were lodged by the DB.
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