The home ministry has received police super Babul Akter’s application to withdraw his resignation.
The application has been passed on to the president as per due process, senior secretary at the home ministry Md. Mozammel Haque Khan told the Prothom Alo Wednesday.
“Babul Akter had wanted to resign before, but now he wants to stay. We are sending all applications to the president. When a decision is made, we will act accordingly,” said the senior secretary.
On 3 August, Babul Akter submitted a written application to rejoin work at the police headquarters, but the officials concerned told him that he would not be able to join.
On 4 August, he submitted a written application to the police headquarters DIG (administration). In the application he said that he was residing at his father-in-law’s house to take care of his two children, who have to regularly be taken to see the doctor. He asked for his absence to be regarded as leave and requested to join work once again.
In an application to the home secretary, he said that he did not resign on his own, rather he was forced to do so. The police inspector general, however, said that Babul resigned of his own volition.
“He (Babul) was not forced; he resigned on his own will. We waited for a long time before sending his letter of resignation to the home ministry,” replied police inspector general AKM Shahidul Hoque to Prothom Alo when asked about the allegation of forcing Babul to resign after his wife’s murder.
On 9 August, SP Babul sent an application to the senior secretary of home affairs to rescind his signed resignation letter. He said that on 28 June, he was forced to sign the resignation letter.
He said he did so under the duress of losing his wife and asked for the resignation letter to be withdrawn.
Source: Prothom Alo
