Cox’s Bazar SP, 5 others transferred

Within weeks, another change has been made in Chattogram Range Police and this time Superintendent of Cox's Bazar Police ABM Masud Hossain has been transferred to Rajshahi district as SP.

The home ministry yesterday issued a circular mentioning the transfer of SP Masud and five other high officials, including SPs of two other districts and two metropolitan police commissioners.

Signed by Dhananjoy Kumar Das, deputy secretary of the ministry's Public Security Division, the circular read that Md Hasanuzzaman, superintendent of Jhenidah police, would be the new Cox's Bazar SP.

SP Masud's name came to the fore when a leaked phone conversation between ex-OC Pradeep Kumar Das and him went viral on social media after the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan on July 31 night.

Later, Sinha's sister Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous, plaintiff of the murder case, appealed to the court to make Masud an accused in the case.

But Judge Tamanna Farah of Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-4 in Cox's Bazar rejected the appeal.

On August 31, the home ministry in a circular transferred the Chattogram Range deputy inspector general of police and the Chattogram Metropolitan Police commissioner.

Besides, a number of officials, who used to work closely with Pradeep, had also been transferred from Teknaf Police Station earlier.

In the home ministry yesterday's order, Khandaker Lutful Kabir, commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police, was transferred to Gazipur Metropolitan Police as commissioner, while Deputy Inspector General of Police Masudur Rahman Bhuiyan of the Special Branch would fill his position in Khulna.

Meanwhile, Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, was made the SP of Jhenidah police.

And Md Shahidullah, SP of Rajshahi district police, was transferred to DMP as DC.