A Dhaka court has framed charges against Anwar Hossain, Sub inspector of Mohammadpur police station in a case filed for shooting a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh framed the charges against the police officer under the section 326 of penal code, rejecting the discharge petition filed by defense counsel Aminul Gani Titoo in the case on Monday.
However, SI Anwar appeared before the court pleaded not guilty and sought justice after the charges were read out to him in the case.
According to the case documents, on October 19, last year, the SI shot Shah Alam, a CNG driver, in both legs from close range in the capital’s Taltola and later tried to portray him as a mugger and a victim of a gunfight.
In this connection, Shah Alam’s brother Golam Mostafa filed a case against him with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on October 22, last year.
Soon after filing the case, October 23, last year police arrested SI Anwar in this connection but he later got bail in the case.
Anwar, who hailed from Shariatpur, joined the Bangladesh Police as sub-inspector in 2007.
He was working with the police station over a year.
Earlier, he worked with Mohammadpur and Adabar police stations in the capital.