Rayhan’s death in custody: PBI press charges against ex-SI Akbar, 5 others
Rayhan Ahmed. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted a charge-sheet today against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed in connection with the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed.
PBI Special Superintendent Mohammad Khaled-uz-Zaman confirmed the progress today and said that the charge-sheet was submitted to the prosecution section of the police, who will place it in a virtual court today.
Among the accused, all except Noman are in jail.
Rayhan Ahmed, 33, a youth of Neharipara area in Sylhet city, was tortured at Sylhet s Bandarbazar Police Outpost on early October 11 and died an hour after he was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical Hospital by police personnel.
WHAT S IN THE CHARGE-SHEET
The 1,962-page charge sheet listed 69 witnesses, among them, seven police personnel and three others already testified before the court as witnesses under section-164 of the Penal Code, said PBI Special Superintendent Mohammad Khaled-uz-Zaman at a press conference yesterday.
He said, As per the investigation, the detention of Rayhan and torture in the outpost was not pre-planned. That night, two locals named Saidul Sheikh and Ratan Sheikh went to Kasthoghar area to buy yaba pills; there they locked into an altercation with the sellers and Rayhan was there with the yaba sellers too.
Moinul Hoque Chowdhury,
bdnews24.com
Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:55 PM BdST
Updated: 31 Dec 2020 09:11 PM BdST
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Meanwhile, issues like the scandal involving Shamima Noor Papia, an expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League who allegedly ran escort services at the Westin hotel in Dhaka, the COVID testing scam which brought dubious businessman Mohammad Shahed under the spotlight, along with the killing of retired major Sinha Md Rashed Khan by the police, rank among the biggest talking points of the year.
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5 Sylhet city councillors eat exotic, wild birds
Outrage as video
goes viral
Mohammad Taufiq Baksh of ward-26, who is the panel mayor; Rokibul Islam Jholok of ward-11, Eliasur Rahman of ward-8, Abdul Muhit Javed of ward-16 and Tareq Uddin Taz of ward-10 of Sylhet City Corporation. (From top left) Photos were collected from Facebook
Six people, including five councillors of Sylhet City Corporation, were seen in a Facebook Live video having the meat of wild birds at a diner in Jaintiapur upazila s Haripur Bazar area on Friday night.
A waiter and several councillors were heard saying that it was the cooked meat of white-breasted waterhen, locally known as Dahuk.