PBI takes over probe of Rayhan’s death
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) will now probe the case filed in connection with the torture of a man to death in police custody in Sylhet.
Victim Rayhan Ahmed's family alleged that he was tortured in the city's Bandarbazar police outpost and later he died in a city hospital on Sunday morning.
As per an order from the Police Headquarters yesterday, the case was transferred to PBI, said Jyotirmoy Sarker, additional deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police.
Meanwhile, sources in police said prime suspect of the case Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan, in-charge of the police outpost, has been untraceable since Monday night.
Rayhan, 33, a resident of the city's Neharipara area, died at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital at 7:50am on Sunday, around an hour after he was admitted there by police.
After allegations of torturing him inside the Bandarbazar police outpost, an internal probe body of police was formed and the body initially found involvement of the outpost's police personnel.
On Monday, four police personnel, including the outpost in-charge, were suspended and three others were withdrawn from the outpost.
Sources said Rayhan was detained by police on an allegation of mugging and brought to the outpost at 3:10am on Sunday. He was not found injured when he entered the outpost.
Around 6:30am, injured Rayhan was seen taken out of the outpost, and put in an autorickshaw.
The evidence was seen in footage of CCTV installed by the office of superintendent of Sylhet police near the outpost, a police official said, citing the report.
Azbahar Ali Sheikh, deputy commissioner (north) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said, "As there are many questions to be answered about the incident, the investigation will be conducted properly as the murder case was filed under the torture and custodial death act."
Rayhan's wife Tahmina Akther Tannion Monday lodged the case against several unknown people with Kotwali Police Station.
Meanwhile, several hundred people gathered in front of Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar yesterday afternoon and demanded prompt arrests of the suspected police personnel.
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