Two complaints lodged against ex-IGP Chowdhury Mamun, DB’s Harun and others

Two complaints were lodged against some police officials including former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun and former Detective Branch (DB) chief Harun-Or-Rashid on charge of vandalism and looting valuables at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office during a BNP-movement two years back.

BNP’s case information and reservation affairs official Salah Uddin Khan lodged the complaints with Paltan Model Police Station on Wednesday morning.

Officer-in-Charge of the police station Sentu Mia said,” We have received the complaints.”

Salah Uddin alleged that they were subjected to harassment in several false cases filed by police officials from 2009 to 2024.

“In 2022, police officials Harun-or-Rashid, Mehedi Hasan and Biplob Kumar Sarkar broke into our office and took away all the belongings of our office. Valuables worth about Tk 47 lakh were looted and valuables worth Tk 3.5 lakh were also damaged. We have filed an FIR here today in this connection,” he mentioned in the first FIR and made 15 police officials accused.

In the FIR, former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah, former DB chief Harun-or-Rashid, DMP Additional Commissioners Rezaul Alam, Hafiz Akhter, Additional Police Commissioner (Counter Terrorism) Asaduzzaman, Joint Commissioners (DB) Khandaker Nurunnabi, Sanjit Kumar Roy, Joint Commissioners of DMP Biplob Kumar Sarkar, Mehedi Hasan, Deputy Police Commissioner (Cyber and Special Crime Investigation Division) Tarik Bin Rashid. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Motijheel Zone) Hayatul Islam Khan, ADC (SWAT Team) Jahidul Islam, AC (Motijheel Zone) Golam Ruhani, Paltan Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Mostafizur Rahman were among the accused.

In the second FIR, it was mentioned that on July 16 this year a team of 20 to 25 law enforcers led by DB Harun in plainclothes raided the party’s Nayapaltan Central Office and activists of Awami League equipped with arms, sticks and other weapons were patrolling outside the party office.

The law enforcers also ransacked the party office and kept illegal arms inside the office, it reads.

Later, BNP leaders Joynul Abedin Faruk, Khairul Kabir Khokan, Shahid Uddin Chowdhury and others were sued in a false case, according to the complaint.

Sixteen police officials including then DB chief Harun, Deputy Commissioner Md Mahid Kabir Serniabat and others were among the accused in the 2nd FIR.