Rangpur’s Hazirhat police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdullah Al Mamun planned the storyline of a high-profile murder case under the instruction of the “higher authorities”
He wrote it on behalf of the victim’s family,
Then the OC registered it,
54 leaders and activists of the Awami League, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and General Secretary Obaidul Quader; there are some local leaders of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami as accused too.
Then the OC investigated the case, and after 16 days, arrested the 54th accused—Mahmudul Haque, an assistant professor at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur—from his flat in the city’s Dhap area around 3:30pm on June 19.
The same day, OC Abdullah produced the arrestee before the Rangpur Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court of Shoyebur Rahman and prayed that he be kept in jail under further investigation.
Having accepted the plea, the magistrate ordered the professor to jail.
But Amena Begum, the victim’s wife and plaintiff in the case, said that on August 2 last year, grocer Socmechh Uddin tried to flee his shop in the Radha Krishnapur area after seeing a police team. The police were looking for a local Jamaat leader. After some time, he fell on the road and lost consciousness. Relatives and locals rushed him to Prime Medical College Hospital, but only to have him declared dead.
Duty doctors said he had a heart attack; neither the first accused—Sheikh Hasina—nor the 54th accused, Mahmudul Haque, who teaches at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, killed Somechh Uddin.
