Judicial body gets 1.5 months to finish probe
The High Court yesterday gave one and a half months to the judicial inquiry committee formed by the court to complete probe into the police actions regarding the arrest of three men and their subsequent confessions to raping and killing a girl, who turned out to be alive later.
The fifth-grader was rescued 49 days after she was said to be abducted and murdered.
Yesterday, the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman granted the time after the chief judicial magistrate of Narayanganj sought time till December 17 for completing the inquiry into the matter, saying that the probe is yet to be finished.
The bench, however, asked the chief judicial magistrate to submit the probe report to it by January 5 next year as the court will go on a two-week annual vacation from December 18, Mohammad Shishir Manir, a lawyer of the case, told The Daily Star.
On September 24 this year, the HC bench formed the judicial inquiry committee and fixed yesterday's date to hear and pass order on this issue.
The HC came up with the directives following a revision petition that challenged the police action of arresting the three accused, and the latter's confessional statements to a magistrate about the alleged rape and killing of the child who was rescued alive in Narayanganj.
During hearing on the revision petition on September 17, Shamim Al Mamun, the investigation officer of the case and Sub Inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station, and current IO of the case and SI Mostafizur Rahman appeared with case records before the HC bench as per its August 27 order. The court did not hear their statements.
SI Shamim's lawyer Munsurul Hoque Chowdhury told the HC bench that the police administration has already suspended his client and initiated departmental proceedings against him.
Five lawyers led by Mohammad Shishir Manir had submitted the revision petition on August 25. The petition stated that a fifth grader went missing on July 4 this year.
Her father Jahangir Hossain filed a case with Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station on August 6 on charge of abducting his daughter.
Police arrested three accused Abdullah, Belal, Rakib in connection with the case.
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