A case was filed yesterday against 11 people, including nine Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) member on charge of torturing a businessman to death in custody.
Mehedi Hasan, brother of victim Shahnur Alam, son of Rahis Uddin of Bagdahar village in Nabinagar upazila, filed the case with the court of Nabinagar Senior Judicial Magistrate Nazmun Nahar.
The accused include RAB 14 Bhairab Camp Commanding Officer Major AZ Sakib Siddique and sub-inspector M Enamul Haque.
The court fixed June 4 for further hearing on the complaints.
As the case goes a team of nine RAB members detained Shahnur from his house on the night of April 29. He was first taken to Nabinagar Police Station. Later he was taken to the Bhairab Camp of the RAB.
He was reportedly tortured at the RAB camp before he was handed over to the police station on April 30. Shahnur was shown arrested in a case and produced before a court which sent him to jail on May 1.
As his condition deteriorated the jail authorities took him to Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital on May 4. He was then shifted to the Comilla Medical College Hospital where he died on May 6.
The complainant said the victim’s body bore the marks of injury as per the viscera report.
Source: UNBConnect
