‘IO committed serious offence’
He has committed a serious crime by doing it (forcibly taking confessional statement). It is not believable that a minor killed his younger brother. It seems to us that Nayan Kumar is not competent to conduct investigation into any offence. He should be restrained from any investigation proceedings for the interest of the country.
The High Court yesterday rebuked Nayan Kumar, an inspector of Criminal Investigation Department of police in Naogaon, for forcibly taking confessional statement from a murder victim's brother, a minor, in Bogura in 2015.
The court also directed the government to restrain Nayan from conducting i
nvestigation into any offence till further order.
Nayan, who was a sub-inspector of Bogura's Sariakandi Police Station and also investigation officer of the murder case, had recorded the confessional statement from the minor on November 30, 2015.
"He [Nayan] has committed a serious crime by doing it [forcibly taking confessional statement]. It is not believable that a minor killed his younger brother. It seems to us that Nayan Kumar is not competent to conduct investigation into any offence. He should be restrained from any investigation proceedings for the interest of the country," the HC bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice Md Atoar Rahman said.
The bench said this during virtually hearing a criminal revision petition filed challenging the legality of the trial proceedings of the case at the Juvenile Court in Bogura.
The court asked current IO Md Mansur Ali, a sub-inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation in Bogura, to send the relevant documents of the case to it by September 27. It fixed September 27 for further hearing on the petition.
Nayan, who appeared before the HC bench yesterday in compliance with its August 22 summons order, has been ordered to appear in person to the HC bench on September 27.He also submitted a petition through his lawyer Sarwar Ahmed offering unconditional apology to the HC bench. In the petition, he sought exemption from personal appearance before the court.
He, however, said he has recorded confessional statement in accordance with relevant provisions of the law. Petitioner's lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir placed some documents before the HC, saying that the confessional statement was collected from the minor by beating and torturing him.
There were injury marks on his body when he was admitted to a hospital the following day of recording his confessional statement, the lawyer said.
Present IO Md Mansur Ali virtually appeared before the HC bench as per its August 22 summons order. Deputy Attorney General Sarwar Hossain Bappi represented the state during the virtual proceedings of the court.
On August 25, 2015, the body of an eight-year-old was found in a jute field in Bogura's Katakhali. A day later, his father filed a case with Sariakandi Police Station.
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