Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities have suspended Nayek Amir for misbehaving with a group of unarmed leftist students of Dhaka University who were trying to besiege the DMP headquarters in the capital’s Mintoo Road on Sunday.
“Nayek Amir was suspended for his misbehaviour,” said SM Jahangir Alam Sarker, acting deputy commissioner of DMP.
Jahangir said a three-member probe body, headed by DMP Joint Commissioner (Logistic) Belal Ahmed, was also formed to investigate the incident, and the committee was asked to submit the report within seven working days.
However, no case has been filed so far over the incident. Police released the detainees held from the spot.
On Sunday, police charged truncheons, hurled tear gas cannisters and used a water cannon to disperse the leftist students of Dhaka University who were trying to lay siege to the DMP office protesting the force’s inaction regarding assaults on women during the Pohela Boishakh celebrations.
Chhatra Union said that at least 34 of their leaders and activists were injured in police beatings.
Police detained Anik Roy, organising secretary of Chhatra Union’s Dhaka city unit; Dipanjan Siddhanta Kajal, general secretary of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit; Ariful Islam Anik, member of JU unit; Antu Chandra Nath, member of Dhaka unit; and Saddam Hossain Joy, member of Dhaka unit.
On April 14, several women who joined the Bangla New Year celebrations were sexually assaulted by a group of miscreants at Dhaka University’s TSC and Suhrawardy Uddyan gate areas.