Allegations of Bribery, Promotion: ‘Business’, Negligence
Kazi Shafiqul Islam worked as a reserve officer (RO)-01 at Chattogram District Police Lines for seven years. His tenure was marked by allegations of bribery, promotion business, gross negligence in duties and misbehaviour with his colleagues.
He was then transferred to Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) from district police. The transfer opened the floodgate of his irregularities, as they began to come to light one by one.
Shafiqul, currently a sub-inspector, has been sent show cause notices from the Chattogram SP office, but he has not responded to those. A departmental case was also filed against him over irregularities.
The case is currently under investigation.
Mentioning "administrative reasons", the SI was stand released from the RO-1 post of CMP by the Police Headquarters and transferred to Armed Police Battalion (APBN) on December 30. Afterwards, the order was cancelled.
Following this move, the then superintendent of police (SP) of Chattogram Noor-E-Alam Mina found many irregularities against the SI during an annual visit to the Reserve Office at Halishahar Police Lines on December 3, 2018.
In the eight-page report signed by SP Noor-E-Alam and attached to the show cause notice issued on December 12, 2018, he asked the SI to explain 21 allegations found against him at different points.
Most charges against him involve gross negligence in official and departmental duties, taking money from police personnel for their promotions and concealing allegations from seniors.
Shafiq was asked several times to present his version through show-cause notices, but he did not reply.
The Daily Star obtained a copy of the case documents and official show cause notices served upon SI Shafiqul.
According to the reports, most of the allegations involved violations of officials rules, which are punishable offences.
Police sources said SP Noor-E-Alam last issued two show-cause notices to Deputy Commissioner (DC) (Sadar) of CMP for SI Shafiq on December 24 last year, which also went unheeded by Shafiq.
Confirming the notices, Deputy Commissioner (DC) (Sadar) Amir Jafar told The Daily Star, "A few letters came from the SP office and at that time the SI was on holiday. After joining, I asked him to send a reply."
This correspondent visited the SP office a few days back and tried to talk in this regard, but no one wanted to talk about SI Shafiq there.
Additional SP (Sadar) Md Jahangir told The Daily Star "The allegations and departmental case are internal matters."
Talking to The Daily Star, CMP boss Mahbubor Rahaman said, "I have heard that a departmental case is ongoing against SI Shafiq in the district. I did not get any letters in this regard to take steps against the SI."
"There are several steps of a departmental case and issuing show cause notices is one of them," he said, adding, "If he is found guilty in the case then action will be taken as per the order."
Contacted, SI Shafiq told this correspondent "Who are you and why are you asking this? I am not bound to answer you."
At one point, he said, "In the reserve office, there are 40 to 35 persons, including SIs, ASIs and constables. Why I should take the responsibility for all of them?
"SP Noor-E-Alam Mina did this against me violating all the rules. He is my close relative, but I don't understand why he did that to me," he said. He then asked the reporter to come to his office for details.
Talking to The Daily Star, SP Noor E Alam said, "The SI is lying and I am not his relative. During my annual inspections I found the irregularities against him and issued show-case notices for that.
"When the procedure of registering departmental case started, he managed to get transferred to the CMP from district police. Despite issuance of repeated show-case notices, he did not reply, but answered through a letter when I left Chattogram to new office station," added Noor E Alam.
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