Leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies accused in two cases filed in connection to the March 11 rampage in front of the BNP central office in the capital are staying in huddles in police custody.
Of the arrested remanded in police custody, 69 were
found on Monday kept in a cell and a room at Paltan police station with only one toilet for their use.
Four of them – AZM Zahid Hossain, Mohammad Shahjahan, Jatiya Ganatantrik Party president Shafiul Alam Prodhan, and Shihabuddin – were hospitalised as they became sick in police custody.
Family members and BNP activists claimed the arrested became sick as they were kept in an unhealthy environment and due to police torture.
However, the investigation officer in a case, sub-inspector Abu Zafar, told New Age that the arrested were not kept in narrow confines in their police station but in several places.
He said, of the 148 arrested, 62 were sent to court, 69 were in Paltan police station, nine in Rampura police station, and eight in the Detective Branch office.
They take two people at a time for interrogation, not torture, he said, adding that due to the crisis of accommodation, they sent 62 of the arrested to jail and interrogated them at jail gate.
The Paltan police filed two cases against 154 identified leaders and activists of the BNP and its allies and 50 to 60 other unidentified people over the March 11 rampage.
The police found 148 of the 154 identified people accused in the cases were involved in the rampage three days after they had been remanded in police custody, said Paltan police officer-in-charge Golam Sarowar.
The police on Sunday afternoon submitted a 16-page charge-sheet against the 148 accused to the court in the case filed under the Speedy Trial Act, said the OC. (Source)
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