Nine personnel of Chittagong Central Jail including its Senior Jail Super were sued yesterday morning for killing a prisoner in the jail on June 3 night.
Md Yiakub Kaisar, younger brother of the inmate Md Zakir Hosssain, 30, lodged the case with the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM), Moshiur Rahman Chowdhury, said court sources.
Taking the complaint into cognisance, the court ordered Kushum Dewan, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch of police in Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), to investigate the matter, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution) Md Rezaul Masud of CMP.
Advocate Nasir Uddin, counsel for the plaintiff, said the case was lodged mentioning nine jail officials’ names, along with numerous unnamed jail officials and prisoners.
The nine are Chittagong Central Jail Senior Jail Super Md Sagir Mia, Jailer Nesar Ahmed, Jail Hospital Physician Dr Mostafizur Rahman, former Subedars Amju Mia and Humayun Kabir, Chief Jail Guards Mohammad Hossain and Abdur Rashid, Jail Guards Mohammad Alam and Ziabul Islam.
Of them, Amju Mia and Humayun Kabir were transferred from the jail, Ziabul Islam and Mohammad Alamgir were suspended and departmental case was filed against Mohammad Hossain and Abdur Rashid soon for their negligence in duty.
The body of Zakir, prisoner number 8385/A, was found hanging from the railing of the stairs of the second floor of a jail building on June 3 around 8:30pm. The jail authorities termed it as a suicide.
The family members of the prisoner, who was awarded 14 years of imprisonment in an abduction case, however, have been claiming that Zakir had been tortured to death by the jail personnel.
Asim Kanti Paul, deputy inspector general (DIG) of Prison in Chittagong, formed a three-member probe committee, led by himself, while the Senior Jail Super formed another three-member probe body, led by the Jail Hospital Physician, to look into the matter.
