Opinion: Cloud over SP Babul, police role
A big question is haunting the nation right now: is the award winning Superintendent of Police Babul Akter involved with the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu or not?
The question was not raised by the media, but by the actions of the police investigation into the June 5 grisly murder in Chittagong city.
Firstly, the police rounded up five of the alleged killers. The cops also arrested the man who allegedly supplied firearms to the killers. But according to police, none of them had planned the killing. In fact they did not even know who Mitu was. They were hired by another accused, Kamrul Shikder alias Musa, who is still on the run.
It seems that the police are trying to portray Musa as the mastermind.
But what is Musa's motive to kill Mitu?
Musa had been an informant for several police high officials, including Babul, since 2003. This is where Babul comes in as a suspect.
And the mystery deepens when we see the police picking up SP Babul for questioning. More disturbing is the reports circulating in the media that Babul had been asked either to face trial for the killing his wife or resign. It has also been written that police have evidence about his link to the killing.
If so, under which law and under which ethics and morality can police ask Babul to resign? Is it a punishment for murder? So, are we living in a dark age to see such free-wheeling enforcement of law?
What does it say about police force's own respect for law?
This killing seems to be a simple open and shut case. A lot of things have been revealed with the arrests and yet we, the public, know nothing significant.
If SP Babul indeed was the murderer, why his in-laws are backing him so vehemently? Why are they never saying anything about marriage going awry between the two?
Our suspicion becomes deeper by the alleged disappearance of Musa. Police say Musa is missing while his family says he was picked up by the police on June 22. So, what actually is happening here? Nobody knows.
Some of the media reports talk about rivalry in the police department and some grudge arising out of some recoveries. They talk about big money being played out in the background. We hear many things that make the story very murky.
So, it is time the police department comes out with the facts and the whole facts to be judged by the court.
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