Charges have been pressed against six members of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) over kidnapping a man to demand ransom money. Chattogram Senior Judicial magistrate Najmun Nahar accepted the charge sheet submitted by police on Sunday and granted bail to the six accused until the trial in the case begins on January 26, said Inspector Humayun Kabir of Chattogram district police. Earlier on December 4, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), submitted the charge sheet against the six accused. Also read: 3 cops suspended as Rohingya man flees police custody in Ctg The accused are, Constable Morshed Billah, bodyguard of CMP commissioner, Constable Md Masud, bodyguard of CMP Deputy Commissioner (Detective branch), Constable Shakil Khan and Eskandor deployed at Dampara Reserve Force Office, Constable Monirul Islam, computer operator of Assitant police Commissiner’s Karnaphuli office, Constable Abdul Nabi from Detective Branch (North). According to the case, on February 3 midnight, eight youths on four motorcycles abducted a man named Abdul Mannan from Purbo Bairag village under Anwara police station. Thecyouths identified themselves as police and one of them was wearing a jacket with DB (Detective Branch) written on it. They took Mannan to the Bhellapara area in Patia and demanded Tk 10 lakh to acquit him from the many cases filed against his name at the police station. Also read: Mob surrounds police station in Rangpur accusing cops of beating a person to death Mannan was released later after he paid them Tk 1,80,000. Mannan heard the name of Morshed from their conversation and filed a case in this regard on February 7 at Anwara police station. Finding proof of those accused constables being involved in the incident CMP authority filed a departmental case after suspending them.

Chattogram police have submitted charge sheet against BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed under the Special Powers Act for instigating violence and destabilising the country during the students movement for safe roads three years ago. The charge sheet against Khasru and a Chatra Dal leader Milhanur Rahman Nowmi was submitted by sub-Inspector (SI) Sanjoy Guha of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit, Chattogram Metropolitan Police  on Wednesday,  CMP Deputy Commissioner (DC) Farook-ul-Haque confirmed on Thursday. In the report submitted to a Chattogram Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, police, however, said that no evidence was found against the two in allegations under the ICT Act. Read: Attack on rally: BNP demands withdrawal of Habiganj SP, 2 OCs Police launched probe after on August 4, 2018 a Bangladesh Chhatra League Chattogram Metropolitan Unit Acting General Secretary Jakaria Dastagir filed the case under sections 57 (2) of ICT Act and 15 (3) of the Special Powers Act with Kotwali Police Station against the two for ‘instigating’ the student movement over road safety and ‘conspiring’ against the state. The case was related to a leaked phone call going in the social media in which Khasru was heard instructing Nawmi to continue the student movement for road safety. Read: EC dialogue: BNP neither gets invitation nor makes any decision On August 28, the High Court granted Khasru six-week anticipatory bail in the case. On October 21, a Chattogram court sent him to jail after he surrendered. On November 12, he was granted bail in the case.  

A court here on Monday pressed charges against the lone accused in a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University (DU) student in Kurmitola area on January 5.