Drug-carrying jailer now suspended

Prisons authorities yesterday suspended Sohel Rana Biswas, jailer of Chattogram Central Jail, who was arrested with over Tk 44 lakh, fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) worth Tk 2.50 crore and Phensedyl from Kishoreganj on Friday.

“We were waiting for the First Information Report (FIR) filed by police. Once it reached of us, we suspended him immediately,” Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin, inspector general of prisons, told The Daily Star yesterday.

A three-member probe body headed by Deputy Inspector General (Barisal Range) of Prison was also formed to investigate the incident, he said. It was directed to submit a report by November 12, he said.

Sohel was travelling to his hometown Mymensingh from Chattogram by train when police, acting on information, raided it at Bhairab Railway Station at around 1:30pm. They recovered 12 bottles of Phensedyl from his bag.

Sohel was later produced before a Kishoreganj court with a seven-day remand prayer on Saturday. The court fixed today (Monday) to hear the remand prayer, said court inspector Toufiq Ahmed.

Sohel is currently in Kishoreganj jail.