Doctor, police, magistrate altercation: Writ petition seeks judicial inquiry
Dr Syeeda Showkat, a physician at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, gets in a heated argument with a policeman in the capital’s Elephant Road, over showing her ID on April 18, 2021. Photo: Amran Hossain
Star Digital Report
Star Digital Report
A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its order for conducting a judicial inquiry into the incident of the altercation involving a physician, a magistrate, and a police officer over movement pass in Dhaka on April 18 that went viral on social media.
Md Eunus Ali Akond submitted the writ petition as a public interest litigation to the office concerned of the HC, praying to the court so it directs the government to take stern action against executive magistrate Sheikh Mamunur Rashid and law enforcers for misbehaving with BSMMU s Associate Professor Dr Sayeda Shawkat during the incident.