Apex court urged to uphold order for filing case

The Supreme Court has been requested to uphold the High Court order that directed police to record a case over torture on Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby by cops.

SC lawyers AKM Ehsanur Rahman and SM Zulfiqure Ali and journalist Jahid Hasan yesterday submitted a petition to the chamber judge of the apex court for vacating its order that stayed the HC directives. They may hold a hearing today, Ehsanur Rahman told The Daily Star.

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Following a writ petition, the HC on January 18 ordered the officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station to record the allegation of Golam Rabby as a case.

The chamber judge of the SC on January 21 stayed the HC order following a government petition and on January 25, sent it to the Appellate Division for its hearing.

The hearing was not held on January 25 as it was not included in the hearing list.

Some police officials allegedly tortured Rabby, 28, an assistant director of Bangladesh Bank for refusing to pay bribe of Tk 5 lakh in the capital's Mohammadpur on January 9. They reportedly threatened to frame him in narcotics cases.

Rabby took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and filed a complaint with Mohammad Police Station.

Later, Masud Shikder, sub-inspector, Mohammadpur Police Station was suspended.