DB ordered departmental case against the policemen involved in money transfer from freelancer’s account
Six officers of the city Detective Branch (DB) have been temporarily suspended for allegedly extorting crores of taka from a freelancer in Chattogram. An order has also been issued against them to file a departmental case.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (PR) of CMP (Chittagong Metropolitan Police) Spina Rani confirmed the matter on Thursday, March 14 in the afternoon. She said, this instruction was given in the office order signed by CMP Commissioner (Additional IGP) Krishna Pada Roy.
In the instructions given on March 12, it is said, 'On March 1, a 3-member inquiry committee was formed based on the CMP's office order regarding the news published in various media. The committee submitted the report after investigation. It has been said, 'after reviewing the report, Inspector (unarmed) Ruhul Amin should be summoned for explanation and SI (unarmed) Md. Alamgir Hossain, ASI (Unarmed) Md. Babul Mia, ASI (Unarmed) Md. Shah Paran Jannat, ASI (Unarmed) Mainul Hossain, Constable Md. Zahidur Rahman, Constable Abdur Rahman was temporarily suspended; instructions were given to file a departmental case.
On February 26 around 10:30 PM, a team led by DB inspector Md. Ruhul Amin arrested the freelancer named Abu Bakar Siddique while drinking tea in the cooling corner of Baraka Enterprise under Bayezid Bostami police station area.
Abu Bakar Siddique alleged that the policemen unlocked the mobile phone with his fingerprints. He was taken into DB custody at Mansoorabad that night. At that time, taka 10 lakhs were transferred from 2 of his bank accounts using his mobile phone through mobile banking. Besides, 2 lakh 77 thousand dollars (about 3 crore 38 lakh taka) have been transferred from his Binance account.
Husnum Mamurat Lubaba, wife of Abu Bakr, filed a case in court against 8 policemen and some other unknown defendants on March 5 for framing Abu Bakr in a false case and withdrawing money by threatening him with crossfire. The court took cognizance of the case and directed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate.
