Attack on Journos: Probe body submits report against 8 cops
The probe body, formed to investigate last week's assault of two journalists in Shahbagh, submitted its report against eight policemen yesterday.
A highly-placed police source told The Daily Star that four of the accused were from Shahbagh Police Station.
One of them is Assistant Sub-inspector Ershad, who was suspended immediately after the incident.
Three others were Sub-inspectors Subrata Poadder, Abdur Rahman and Imam Arefin. The name of the other accused could not be known immediately.
The three-member probe committee is headed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Deputy Commissioner Nabid Kamal.
The report was handed over to DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia, Maruf Hossain Sardar, deputy commissioner of the DMP (Ramna division), told The Daily Star last night.
He, however, declined to disclose anything about the report and said the DMP commissioner would take necessary steps.
On last Thursday, a group of policemen assaulted ATN News cameraperson Abdul Alim while he was covering a police crackdown on a strike enforced by the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports at Shahbagh.
ATN News Staff Reporter Ishan Bin Didar was also assaulted when he rushed to his colleague's aid. Mosharraf Alam Siddique, deputy manager of ATN News, later filed a general diary with Shahbagh Police Station over the police assault.
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