Suspended SI 'missing'

Barisal police continues to maintain that a sub-inspector went "missing" after recently being suspended centring a case involving the torture and confinement of "his child bride".
Abdul Wares, 40, went on the run, fears the mother of Habiba Aktar Marufa, questioning how this could not be foreseen and prevented through his arrest.
Habiba, as per the principal of Sher-e-Bangla Girls School at Barisal city's College Road, studies in class VIII of the institution and is aged around 14 years.
Police, alerted by Habiba's mother Mahmuda Begum and Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association's Barisal unit members, broke into Wares' residence in front of Kawnia Police Station on March 5 and brought out Habiba. 
Mahmuda filed the case on March 10 while Wares was suspended.
An inspector of the reserved force at Barisal Police Lines said Wares went "missing" after leaving the lines in the afternoon of March 11 saying he was going for prayers at a mosque.
That day Habiba's statement was recorded by Metropolitan Magistrate Rafikul Islam who directed that she stay with her mother instead of a "shelter home".
He also asked her to undergo examinations at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital to record evidence of torture, if any.
But Habiba gave a written statement refusing to undergo the examination, said investigation officer of the case Muhammad Selim Reza.
Barisal Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shoibal Kanti Chowdhury said police was trying to "arrest the missing" man.