A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Helal Uddin, former
officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station in the capital, to jail on
his surrender in a case filed on a charge of torturing Dhaka University
student Abdul Kader.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order after the former police officer surrendered before the court and sought bail in the case.
On May 17, the same court sentenced Helal to three years’ imprisonment and fined him Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer three months more in prison.
According to the case document, Abdul Kader, a student of biochemistry and molecular biology, was detained in Segunbagicha area of the capital on a charge of robbery.
The student was arrested when he was returning to his Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall from his relative’s house at Eskaton on July 16, 2011.
Later, OC Helal took him to his office room and beat up Kader severely to make a confessional statement a false case.
After arresting Kader, the police implicated him in two cases -- one for robbery and another for possession of an illegal firearm -- with Khilgaon Police Station, and also showed him arrested in another false case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station for carjacking.
But following media outcry, the High Court on July 28 ordered the inspector-general of police to investigate the incident.
DU teachers and students and people from different walks of life reacted sharply to the police torture on Kader, then a master’s student of biochemistry.
Later, three officials of Khilgaon Police Station, including OC Helaluddin, were suspended and Kader was released on bail on August 3, 2011.
Kader, now a lecturer of Laxmipur Govt. Mohila College, was acquitted of all charges in 2012. On January 23, 2012, he sued OC Helaluddin for torturing him in line with recommendations by a probe committee of the law ministry and a High Court order.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order after the former police officer surrendered before the court and sought bail in the case.
On May 17, the same court sentenced Helal to three years’ imprisonment and fined him Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer three months more in prison.
According to the case document, Abdul Kader, a student of biochemistry and molecular biology, was detained in Segunbagicha area of the capital on a charge of robbery.
The student was arrested when he was returning to his Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall from his relative’s house at Eskaton on July 16, 2011.
Later, OC Helal took him to his office room and beat up Kader severely to make a confessional statement a false case.
After arresting Kader, the police implicated him in two cases -- one for robbery and another for possession of an illegal firearm -- with Khilgaon Police Station, and also showed him arrested in another false case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station for carjacking.
But following media outcry, the High Court on July 28 ordered the inspector-general of police to investigate the incident.
DU teachers and students and people from different walks of life reacted sharply to the police torture on Kader, then a master’s student of biochemistry.
Later, three officials of Khilgaon Police Station, including OC Helaluddin, were suspended and Kader was released on bail on August 3, 2011.
Kader, now a lecturer of Laxmipur Govt. Mohila College, was acquitted of all charges in 2012. On January 23, 2012, he sued OC Helaluddin for torturing him in line with recommendations by a probe committee of the law ministry and a High Court order.
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