Probe underway

Police has started investigations over an allegation that six policemen of Savar Police Station had let a pickup van, carrying arms-ammunitions, go in exchange for a bribe on March 18.
Sub-Inspector (SI) Rajjab Ali alleged that his colleague, SI Emdadul Huq, and five policemen had tried to divert the issue by terming it a mugging incident.
The van, ignoring his signal to stop at a police checkpoint on Dhaka Aricha Highway around 1:30am, had stopped some distance away after being chased. When Rajjab approached the vehicle, three to four men attacked him with bricks, he said.
While he was being hospitalised, SI Emdadul and the five reached the spot and let the accused go, he said, adding that the arms-ammunitions were meant for subversive acts in the March 18 hartal in Bogra.
Emdadul, however, told The Daily Star that the van, carrying saris and lungis, was attacked by three muggers, whom they arrested with a vehicle in possession.
The police station Officer-in-Charge Asaduzzaman termed Emdadul a “sincere and honest” officer and Rajjab “insincere and unfit”.
Superintendent of Police Habibur Rahman and Assistant Superintendent of Police Mashiuddowla Reza, investigating the matter from April 6, said they were yet to get any proof of the allegation.