SI booked for 'abusing' housewife

A heavily pregnant woman has filed a case accusing a police sub-inspector of assaulting her and taking away the valuables from her house.

Maria Khatun, 19, filed the case with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Meherpur yesterday accusing Sub-Inspector Laskar Lazul Islam alias Zia of Meherpur Sadar Police Station.

She said the accused had tortured her on Tuesday afternoon when he went to her house to look for her husband.

According to the complaint, SI Zia and two constables went to Maria and her husband Mehedi Hasan Baker's house in Dighirpara area of Meherpur town and told Maria that they were looking for Baker as a general diary was lodged against him over vandalism.

Baker, a third year student of Meherpur Government College, was not home at the time.

SI Zia forcibly entered her home and started rummaging the belongings while she kept telling him that she was not well, the five-month pregnant woman wrote in her statement.

The SI then allegedly asked where the valuables were kept. At one point, he found Tk 85,000 and gold jewellery and took them.

“The SI abused, slapped that knocked me down when I refused to give him the motorcycle key,” she wrote, adding that she eventually gave him the key of her husband's motorcycle and the officer rode away.

Senior Judge Hadiuzzaman ordered the superintendent of police in Meherpur to investigate the allegations.

SP Mostafizur Rahman formed a probe committee headed by Additional SP Zahidul Islam.

Contacted, SI Zia said the allegations were false and that there were no legal papers of the motorcycle he took.