Death of ASP Shipon: Court summons complainant on Jan 26

A Dhaka court today summoned the complainant to appear before it on January 26 to give his opinion whether it will accept the charges brought against 15 people in a case filed over death of ASP Anisul Karim Shipon on November 9, 2020.

National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH) registrar Dr Abdullah Al Mamun was among the accused in the case filed with Adabor Police Station.

Inspector AKM Nasir Ullah of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on November 30.

The 14 other accused are -- hospital directors, Fatema Khatun Moyna, Abdullah Al Mamun, Sakhawat Hossain Remon and Sazzad Amin; marketing manager Arif Mahmud Joy; coordinator Redwan Sabbir Sajib; kitchen staffer Masud Khan; ward boys Jobayer Hossain, Tanif Mollah, Sajeeb Chowdhury, Asim Kumar Pal and Saiful Islam Palash; guard Liton Ahamed; and pharmacist Tanvir Hasan.

Of them, Sakhawat Hossain went abroad to avoid the arrest while the rest 14 are now on bail in the case. The IO dropped the names of FIR-named accused Dr Nusrat from the charge sheet as her involvement was not found during the investigation.

Name of another accused Dr Niaz Morshed was also dropped from the charge sheet as he died earlier. ASP Anisul Karim Shipon was allegedly tortured to death on November 9, 2020 at the Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital.

Following Shipon's death, his father Faijuddin Ahmed filed the murder case with Adabor Police Station accusing 15 people, including five management personnel of the hospital.