Joydebpur SI suspended for ‘torturing youth’

A policeman has been suspended for torturing a youth in Gazipur.

Ali Akbar, a sub-inspector of Joydebpur Police Station, said to have picked up the youth without following due procedures and tortured him, our local correspondent reports.

SI Akbar, along with four uniformed and some plainclothes, picked up Rubel, 22, from his residence at around 4:00am on Wednesday night, victim’s father Nurul Islam said.

“The SI went to arrest an accused without proper investigation,” said Rezaul Hasan Reza, officer-in-charge of Joydebpur Police Station. “He has been suspended until further notice.”

The policemen beat Rubel mercilessly and damaged both his legs. At one point, they threw Rubel in a ditch in senseless condition, the OC added.

The case concerned is one filed against Rubel by his cousin Sohel.

Rubel was taken to a local clinic and then shifted to Orthopedic Hospital in Dhaka as his condition deteriorated.