A sub-inspector posted at Adabor Police Station was withdrawn after he was accused of harassing the wife of a Juba Dal leader.
The woman alleged that SI Ratan Kumar Hawladar stopped her near Mohammadpur’s Shia Masjid on Sunday afternoon.
He then allegedly forced her inside a shop where he used obscene language and compelled her to take off her jacket.
Her husband, a leader of the Juba Dal’s Adabor unit, was arrested last year in a case filed under the Explosives Act.
“Ratan Hawlader was temporarily withdrawn at night after we received the complaint,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Tejgaon Division Deputy Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar told bdnews24.com.
“An additional deputy commissioner will investigate the matter. Action will be taken after we get his report.”
The woman, a student at a private university, in her complaint said she was returning from class when SI Ratan stopped her rickshaw on the road leading to Shia Masjid.
He then took her inside a nearby shop where he said she would be frisked, she said. The policeman then cleared the shop of others present and pulled down the shutters.
“He kept asking about my husband’s whereabouts. He even threatened to arrest me on false charges of possessing yaba tablets if I refused to tell him.”
“I kept urging him to get a policewoman or any woman or do the frisking at the police station, but he didn’t listen. He even said some indecent things, besides threatening to implicate me as a prostitute and a drug peddler.”
Her husband alleged that SI Ratan even forced her to take off her jacket and searched her purse.
Meanwhile, the policeman denied the allegation and said he met her when she went to the police station after her husband had been charge sheeted in the explosives case.
Source: Bd news24