HC summons Satkhira CID inspector

The High Court today summoned an inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Satkhira to appear before it for calling a fish trader to his office without any specific case.

CID Inspector Sheikh Mesbah Uddin was asked to appear before the HC on November 5 to place his explanation over the notice he issued calling Abdus Samad Gazi from Sreeula village in Satkhira’s Ashashuni upazila, to appear before his [CID] office for an investigation.

The court also stayed the effectiveness of the notice sent by the CID inspector and issued a rule asking the respondents to explain in four weeks why initiating investigation against Samad without any case should not be declared illegal.  

Home secretary, inspector general of police, officer in charge of CID of Satkhira and its inspectors Mesbah Uddin and Mintu Chowdhury, who lodged a complaint with the CID office against Samad, have been made respondents to the rule.

The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah came up with the order and rule after hearing a writ petition filed by Samad challenging the legality of the notice issued by CID Inspector Mesbah Uddin against him.

Citing the petition, Samad’s counsel Md Uzzal Hossain told The Daily Star that CID Inspector Mesbah Uddin on August 23 sent a notice to his client Samad to appear before his office on October 29 for an investigation as one Mintu Chowdhury lodged a complaint against him.

The CID official has not mentioned in the notice what the allegation Mintu brought against Samad, lawyer Uzzal said.

CID cannot initiate any investigation against anybody and cannot ask anybody to appear before its office under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) without any specific case. 

The proceedings initiated by CID inspector Mesba Uddin against the petitioner under section 160 of the Code of Criminal procedure without any case are illegal, he added.