Killing in custody: Mirpur SI on 5-day remand

Jahidur Rahman Khan

A Dhaka court today granted a five-day remand for Jahidur Rahman Khan, a sub-inspector of Mirpur Police Station, in a case filed in connection with the custodial death of garment-waste trader Mahbubur Rahman Sujan.

Earlier in the morning, Rakibul Islam, an SI and an operation officer at Mirpur Police Station, filed the case with the police station, a day after the arrest of Jahid who allegedly tortured Sujan to death on Sunday.

Metropolitan magistrate Md Mahbubur Rahman granted the five-day remand for Jahid and his source Nasim Sheikh after DB Inspector Nibaron Chandra Barman, also the investigating officer of the case, produced them before the court with a 10-day remand prayer for each.

Jahid was picked up at Rupnagar of Mirpur in the capital yesterday after the autopsy report mentioned that Sujan had died of torture, Salahuddin Khan, officer-in-charge of the police station, said yesterday.

Mirpur police also detained Nasim after going through the CCTV footage at the police station.

SI Jahid had picked up Sujan, his wife Lucy and their five-year-old son Rabbi from their Shankar home in the wee hours of Sunday. Jahid, who went to Sujan's house to extort money, tortured Sujan at his house, in the police van and at Mirpur Police Station, according to Sujan's family members. Rabbi and Lucy were allowed to leave in the morning.

Jahid had been “closed” on similar grounds earlier this year. On February 10, when he was working at Pallabi Police Station, he was “closed” for his alleged involvement in the custodial death of Istiaq Ahmed Johnny, 28, a resident of Talab camp in Mirpur-11.