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Download PDF A Dhaka court yesterday ordered a judicial enquiry into the attacks on three shooters including Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Asif Hossain Khan on October 2 after an official of the National Shooting Federation filed an attempted murder case against five police personnel.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Joint Commissioner (Detective Branch) Shahidul Islam, the one-member probe committee investigating the police atrocities, extended the time for submitting his probe report yesterday.
Taking the complaint into cognisance, Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mohammad Mojibul Haq ordered the judicial probe into the matter after Range Officer AFM Sahab Uddin Ahmed filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, Dhaka.
The accused are: Deputy Commissioner of police Obaidur Rahman Khan, Officer-in-charge (OC) of Gulshan Police Station Mahbub Alam Khan, sub-inspectors Jasim Uddin and Faisal Zaman and driver to the deputy inspector general (DIG) of Special Branch Havildar Abdul Khaleq.
Asif, Shoebuzzaman and 21 others, who were also injured in the incident, have been shown as witnesses.
The DMP joint commissioner yesterday told The Daily Star that he had extended his time but did not disclose when he will submit his report.
He said, “I will submit the report soon.” He, however, declined to give any details on his findings.
In his complaint, Sahab Uddin mentioned that Zumman Ali, one of the security guards of National Shooting Federation, asked the chauffeur of DIG Dr Sadiqur Rahman to park the four-wheel-drive vehicle to another place when the driver was attempting to park it in front of the federation complex at 12:15pm.
But the chauffeur Havildar Abdul Khaleq became angry with the guard and was locked in an argument with him, which turned into a scuffle.
Other guards and employees of the complex came out and joined the confrontation while the chauffeur requested help from patrol police who were on duty in the area.
A three-member police patrol team led by Sub-inspector Jasim rushed to the spot with North Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Obaidur Rahman Khan, Assistant Commissioner Zannatul Hasan and OC of Gulshan Police Station Mahbub Alam Khan.
As per direction of the DC and the OC, the policemen entered the complex and started beating up whoever they found inside the complex.
Around 30 shooters, who were practising inside, came out hearing the commotion and fell victim to the indiscriminate beating.
At least 25 shooters were seriously injured.
Among them, internationally acclaimed shooter Asif, who was preparing for the Asian Games to be held in Doha in December, and another shooter Shoebuzzaman were seriously injured, the complainant said.
After the beating at the complex, police arrested five including the shooters and took them to Gulshan Police Station where they were beaten up again before sending them to a court charging them with assaults.
The court, on receiving bail petitions, freed Asif and Shoeb and sent the other three to jail.
Earlier, Gulshan police did not allow the Shooting Federation officials to enter it when they went there for filing a case in this connection.
As the police did not allow them to enter it, the complainant filed the case with the court.
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