A case was filed yesterday against Jatrabari Police station Officer-in-charge (OC) Aboni Shankar Kar and four other police men on charges of sexually assaulting a woman.
The 35-year-old woman filed the case with Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 on charges of assaulting the woman.
The four other accused are two sub inspectors – Jasim, and Jamal, constable Debashis of Jatrabari police station and sub-inspector Abdul Quader of Mugda police station.
The tribunal judge Shafiul Azam recorded partly statement of the victim and fixed today for recording the rest of her statement.
According to the case statement, the younger brother of the plaintiff Shirin, Imran Hossain, married the daughter of Abdul Kader, sub-inspector of Mugda police station, on October 4, 2015.
As Kader and his wife did not accept the marriage, they filed a case against Imran. Then, Imran was sent to jail after his surrender before the court in connection with the case.
He was later granted bail.
After that Jatrabari OC Abani Shankar called Imran to meet him in police station over the matter. When Imran went to the police station SI Jasim demanded Tk1,00000 to settle the matter. But he refused to pay and went back home.
Later, on December 3, SI Kader called Imran and the plaintiff at his house where Kader, Jasim and Jamal tortured Imran and physically assaulted the plaintiff.
Then, the accused took them to the Jatrabari police station where the Jatrabari OC too harassed the plaintiff, the case statement said.
Victim’s lawyer Shahidul Haque said: “The judge will give an order on the issue todayafter taking complete statement of the complainant.”
When contacted, Jatrabari OC Aboni Shankar Kaur, told the Dhaka Tribune that he knew nothing about the matter.