As many as nine policemen including a former commissioner and two OCs have been made accused in a case filed over the custodial death of a BNP leader in Rajshahi seven years ago.
Ainur Rahman Mukta, who was the joint convenor of BNP unit at city's Ward 14, died in police custody in 2015, according to the plaintiff and his wife Morzina Rahman.
The case was filed on Wednesday with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court.
The accused include Md Shamsuddin, a former commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) who retired in 2020.
Three other accused are -- Nur Hossain Khandaker, the then OC of Boalia Police Station; Ashikur Rahman, the then OC of Detective Branch (DB) of RMP, and Touhidul Islam, the then SI of Boalia Police Station.
Five other accused are unnamed police members.
According to case statement, police picked up Mukta from his house at Uposhohor Housing Estate on January 27, 2015.
He was produced before the court the same day after he was tortured at the police station. The court then sent him to jail, according to the case statement.
Later in the day, Mukta was declared dead by doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital when he was taken to the hospital by the jail authorities, the case says.
Mukta was buried without an autopsy under tight police vigilance, the case says.
The plaintiff's lawyer Zahedy said, Mukta was arrested over a political case and he died due to physical and mental torture in police custody.
