SP Babul Akter relieved of job
Superintendent of Police Babul Akter has been relieved of his job, bringing an end to confusion over his job status since he "tendered" resignation to the police headquarters three months ago.
The home ministry yesterday issued a circular in this regard, saying it took effect immediately.
"Babul Akter, additional deputy police commissioner CMP, appointed through 24th BCS (Police) (BP-7505109029), Chittagong, (Now superintendent of police and attached to the police headquarters), has been relieved of the job (police cadre) on the basis of his application," reads the circular.
The home ministry sent Babul's resignation letter to the president's office for consideration in the third week of August and it was pending since then.
After "submitting" his resignation letter on June 24, Babul sent an application to the home ministry on August 9, requesting it to reinstate him in his post. The ministry sent the application, along with the resignation letter, to the president's office.
“Our honourable president has made the decision in response to a prayer of Babul Akter. And Babul has been relieved of his job,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told this correspondent yesterday.
The Daily Star tried to contact Babul over his cell phone in the evening, but found it switched off.
Talking to this correspondent around 11:30pm yesterday, Babul's father-in-law Mosharraf Hossain said, "Babul is not at home now. I heard the news from the media … Babul will decide if he wants to go for a legal battle.”
SP Babul came under the spotlight after the brutal murder of his wife Mahmuda Akter Mitu. On June 5, three assailants stabbed and shot Mitu to death after she had left her OR Nizam Road house on foot around 6:35am to put her son on a school bus at GEC Intersection in Chittagong.
In his letter requesting reinstatement of his job, Babul stated that he plunged into uncertainty with his two kids following his wife's murder.
"When I was passing the toughest time of my life, I was compelled to sign my resignation letter on June 24," he wrote, without mentioning who had forced him to sign the letter.
Babul said he was an honest police officer and his job was the only means of survival of his two children.
On June 24, Babul was picked up from his father-in-law's house at Meradia in the capital and was interrogated for 15 hours at the office of the Detective Branch of police on Minto Road.
At that time, police sources said that during the interrogation, Babul signed the resignation letter after he was given two options -- either to resign or face trial for his alleged involvement in his wife's murder.
However, the top brass of the police refuted Babul's claim, saying he was not forced to sign the resignation letter and that he did it willingly.
The confusion over Babul's job status deepened when Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque, at a programme on July 21, said, "SP Babul Akter is still in his job, but remains absent from office."
"If he continues to do so, the police headquarters will take departmental action against him," he told the media.
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