A High Court bench yesterday kept superintendent of police (SP) of Madaripur and officer in-charge (OC) of Rajoir Police Station of the district standing in the dock for over five hours on charges of assaulting a housewife.
The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Zakir Hossain made SP Sardar Tamizuddin and OC Moshiur Rahman wait in the courtroom from 10:30am to 4:30pm, including one-hour lunch break, in connection with a writ petition filed by the housewife Sheela Mollick.
Sheela, of Aruakandi village of Rajoir upazila, filed the writ petition on January 2, saying that the SP had assaulted her on October 5 last year when she went to his office to seek justice for a complaint.
Earlier, Sheela lodged a case with the police station after some local goons beat her husband.
The OC did not properly investigate the case, she said in the petition.
The court also directed the SP to appear before it on February 13 and asked the government to place the report of judicial inquiry into the incident by this time.
On January 4, the court had directed the law secretary to form a judicial inquiry committee within seven days to investigate the incident.
The HC yesterday said the inquiry commission has to be formed with an additional district judge from any district other than Madaripur.
It, however, exempted OC Moshiur from personal appearance in court.
Advocate Abdul Matin Khasru and advocate A M Amin Uddin appeared for the SP and the OC.
Advocate Ziaul Haque appeared for the petitioner, while Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain stood for the government.
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