Bangladesh Chhatra League sued 17 law enforcers, including the officer-in-charge (OC) of Railway Police’s outpost at Chittagong railway station and its station master, on charge of beating Chhatra League men and not providing them with train tickets.
Ashraf Uddin, assistant office secretary of the Chittagong city unit of Chhatra League, filed the case yesterday before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Moshiur Rahman, against Yasin Faruk, the OC, his bodyguard Emran, and Sub-Inspector Wahid at the Railway Police outpost, and Station Master Jafar Ahmed, Booking Clerk Mohsin Ali, and Railway Security Force personnel Mohammad Rasel, Saiful Islam, Md Shamusddin, Imrul Khan, Md Kuddus, Mohammad Ullah, Habildar Rabiul Haque, Delwar Hossain, Habibur Rahman, Munir Hossain, Habibur Rahman Habib and Mohammad Sabbir.
The case was filed under Sections 326, 324, 307 and 34 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Taking the complaint into cognizance, the court ordered AKM Mohiuddin, OC of Kotwali police station, to file the complaint as First Information Report, said Fakhruddin Chowdhury, public prosecutor of the court.
Sources said Chhatra League applied for tickets for 380 seats at the Dhaka-bound Subarna Express to attend attend the party’s central meeting on Sunday.
But when they went to the railway station to collect the tickets on August 27, the railway officials said they were unable to give so many tickets at once.
This caused an altercation between the Chhatra League men and the railway officials, and at one point the Railway Police and Railway Security Force members allegedly beat and injured four Chhatra League activists.
Following the clash, the Chhatra League activists started a demonstration at the railway station and vandalised properties on the station premises.
Amid the protests, Bangladesh Railway (East Zone) authorities suspended the station master, booking clerk, and three security force members on the day of the incident. The Railway Police OC was forced to go on leave.
They also formed a five-member probe body headed by Divisional Traffic Officer Firoz Iftekhar to look into the matter, sources said.
