A farmer, who was beaten up by police, drowned in a pond in Bhola’s Char Ramesh area yesterday morning.
Angry locals blocked Kheyghat-Bheduria road for two hours in protest at the death of Md Jamal, 45.
Kamal Hossain, a farmer who witnessed the incident, said ASI Mainul and Constable Hannan of Bhelumia police outpost saw the road littered with rice in Char Ramesh area while travelling to Bheduria launch terminal by a motorcycle.
“The rice was to be dried in the sun but this annoyed Hannan as he stopped the motorcycle and indiscriminately beat up Jamal, who was standing nearby,” he said. “Jamal, after the beating, fell in a nearby pond and drowned.”
Locals captured Hannan and refused to let him go until the officer-in-charge of Bhola Model police station, Mobashshir Ali, arrived on the scene and calmed the protesters.
Mobashshir said Jamal’s body was sent to Bhola Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy and Hannan was suspended.