Ex-Jatrabari OC arrested from Cox’s Bazar over ‘killing colleague’s son’ during movement
“After learning that he was staying in Teknaf, we have arrested him and taken him into the custody of district police. The relevant police station in Dhaka has been informed of his arrest. A team is coming from there to take him to Dhaka,” said Cox's Bazar Police Superintendent Jasim Uddin
Abul Hasan, former officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station, has been arrested from Cox's Bazar in a case filed over the killing of Imam Hossain Tayem, son of Rajarbag Police Lines Sub-Inspector Md Moynal Hossain.
Abul is an accused in the case filed over shooting Tayem to death, Cox's Bazar Police Superintendent Md Jasim Uddin Chowdhury said.
"After learning that he was staying in Teknaf, we have arrested him and taken him into the custody of district police. The relevant police station in Dhaka has been informed of his arrest. A team is coming from there to take him to Dhaka," added Jasim.
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Earlier on the day, a Dhaka court placed Shahbagh Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Shahadat Ali on a six-day remand in a case lodged over killing Tayem in the capital's Jatrabari area during the recent student-led protests.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharraf Hossain passed the order as police produced the police official before the court and pleaded to place him on a ten-day remand.
Tayem's mother Pervin Akter filed the case on 20 August against several police officials, including police's Wari division Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Iqbal Hossain.
The other accused include Additional Deputy Commissioner Shakil Mohammad Shamim, Assistant Commissioner Tanjil Ahmed, Jatrabari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Jakir Hossain, and SI Shahadat Ali.
According to the case documents, Tayem and two of his friends went to a tea stall in the Kazla area in Jatrabari on 20 July. The quota reform movement activists were staging protests in the area. Following the order of DC Mohammad Iqbal, ADC Shamim and AC Tanjil, policemen suddenly started firing tear shells, rubber bullets and throwing sound grenades at the protesters.
Tayem and his friends hid inside the tea stall, but the policemen brought them out from there and OC Zakir ordered them to run. As they started running, policemen shot them, killing Tayem on the spot, said the statement.
