The wife of a closed police official lodged a case with a Chittagong court yesterday afternoon against her husband and two others with allegations of torturing her in handcuffs in their residence recently.
Israt Sultana Promi, wife of the withdrawn Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Musa Mia of Sadarghat Police Station in the port city, filed the case with Judge of Women and Children Oppression Prevention Tribunal-1 Md Rezaul Karim around 3:30pm.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (prosecution) Md Rezaul Masud of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) said the tribunal took the complaint into its cognisance and ordered Chief Metropolitan Magistrate to submit its report after judicial inquiry.
The accused are ASI Musa, his elder brother Siraj Mia and Siraj’s wife Dil Afroz Chumki, he said.
The case document said the ASI tortured his wife Promi demanding dowry by putting her in handcuffs in his rented house in Madarbari area in the port city at different times in between June 4 and June 7 and left her alone in the residence.
Locals and Promi’s family members rescued her and admitted her into Chittagong Medical College Hospital in a critical condition, said the case document.
The CMP authorities on June 5 closed the ASI in connection with the incident while the departmental inquiry against the police official was going on, said Harun-or-Rashid Hajaree, deputy commissioner of CMP North Zone.
ASI Musa and Promi come from Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong. They got married on September 13, 2013.
The victim’s family members said Musa demanded money from Promi’s family on different occasions and when he was not given any money he tortured Promi.
