'Assaulting 2 BCL leaders': Govt suspends ADC Harun

The government today suspended Harun-or-Rashid, the additional deputy commissioner of Ramna Division who allegedly assaulted two central Chhatra League leaders inside the Shahbagh Police Station on Saturday night.

The home ministry issued a circular in this regard this afternoon. 

Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Police withdrew ADC Harun from Ramna Division and attached him to its public order management division after the incident.

He was later transferred to Armed Police Battalion (APBn).

On Saturday, ADC Harun and other police members took two BCL leaders to Shahbagh Police Station around 9:00pm where police tortured them for about an hour, BCL leaders alleged.

The injured BCL leaders are: Central Organising Secretary and Dhaka University's (DU's) Fazlul Haque Hall unit President Anwar Hossain Naeem, and Central Science Affairs Secretary and Shahidullah Hall unit General Secretary Sharif Ahmed Munim.

The injured BCL leaders are still receiving treatment at a city hospital.