SI suspended over Mamun murder

A sub-inspector of Kaliganj police in Gazipur was suspended yesterday for negligence of duty as a gang killed an arrestee at Ramchandrapur of the upazila after "snatching" him from police custody on Tuesday night.
Family members of the victim, sand trader Mohammad Mamun Bhuiyan, however, alleged that police had handed him over to the assailants.
SI Nripen Chandra Dey has been suspended as he failed to protect the detainee, Gazipur SP Abdul Baten told The Daily Star.
Police formed a three-member committee headed by the additional SP of Gazipur yesterday to probe the incident.
Nripen arrested Mamun on Tuesday evening from Borogaon village of the upazila as a suspect in a case.
Later that night, the SI filed another case against 150 to 200 unnamed people for obstructing police in discharging their duties and snatching Mamun from their custody at Ramchandrapur village.
Mamun's family members alleged that police were taking him to Kaliganj Police Station in handcuffs by an auto-rickshaw, according to a report by Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
The three-wheeler stopped at Ramchandrapur village, where the gang led by former UP member Hekim Farazi and his nephew Jahangir Farazi had been waiting.
They hacked Mamun brutally in the presence of police, leaving him dead on the spot.
Police later took off his handcuffs and left the place.
Mamun's wife Rehena Begum complained that when she went to Kaliganj Police Station Wednesday night to file a murder case, the duty officer refused to record it.
Contacted, OC Enayet Uddin of Kaliganj Police Station denied the allegation. "We had asked them to file a case in this connection. But the victim's father told us [police] that they would file the case after his other son comes home from Dhaka."