SP asked again to explain OC's failure to report

A Dhaka court yesterday, for the second time, asked Brahmanbaria Superintendent of Police (SP) to explain by April 25 why Sadar police station's officer-in-charge (OC) did not submit any report on execution of arrest warrants against three absconding officials of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Earlier, the same court asked the OC to submit report on execution of the arrest warrants against the three on eight consecutive dates.
Judge Mohammad Abdul Majid of the Drug Court passed the order after Special Public Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir had appealed for taking stringent action against the OC for his negligence in submitting the report.
Meantime, the same court rejected a bail petition of Rid Pharma Ltd Managing Director Mizanur Rahman in the case filed against him on charges of manufacturing toxic paracetamol syrup.
Rid Pharma Director Abdul Goni and two pharmacists Mahbubul Islam and Enamul Haque have been on the run since the case was filed against them.
Earlier on February 18, the SP was asked to take action against OC as he did not submit any report on execution of arrest warrants against the three accused.
But he did not pay heed to this.
Another accused in the case Sheuly Rahman, a director of the company and Rid Pharma MD Mizanur's wife, was earlier granted bail from the High Court while Mizanur Rahman was sent to jail on his surrender to the Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka.
The Dhaka Drug Court issued the arrest warrants against the five after Directorate of Drug Administration Superintendent Shafiqul Islam filed the case with the court on August 11 last year.
As at least 28 children died of renal failure following intake of Rid's paracetamol syrup and suspension across the country from June to August last year, a total of four cases were filed outside Dhaka including one in Brahmanbaria in this connection.