Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective branch will provide full cooperation to the Police Bureau of Investigation in the investigation into the sexual harassment during Pohela Boishakh celebrations in Dhaka University area on April 14 last year.
DMP spokesperson Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam said: “If PBI wants any help with their probe, DB will cooperate fully.”
However, PBI had not asked for any kind of assistance so far, he said.
Monirul told the Dhaka Tribune that police had filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, which stipulates a fixed investigation time for any case. But since the police could not find the culprits within that time, they submitted the final report of the case to the court.
On January 29, a team of the Detective Branch arrested one of the eight men wanted in this case named Mohammad Kamal, a small trader, from a house at Khaji Dewan of Chawkbazar area.
“After that we prayed to the court to reopen the case. But the court directed the PBI to re-investigate the case filed in connection with sexual harassment of several women during the Pohela Boishakh celebrations,” Islam said.
Meanwhile, Ahsan Habib Palash, Special Superintendent of PBI, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday that arrested Kamal was in their custody and had been interrogated.
“But this is not the right time to say anything since we are still investigating the case,” he said.
