Missing SI Akbar barred from leaving country

Police Bureau of Investigation has barred suspended Sylhet police sub-inspector Akbar from leaving the country over a case filed on torturing to death of a man in police custody in Sylhet.

PBI deputy inspector general Banaj Kumar Majumder disclosed the matter in a press briefing on Thursday.

He said that they had informed all the immigration points so that SI Akbar could not leave the country and had given details about him.

Banaj said that they had applied for another post-mortem of Rayhan’s body and his body would be exhumed on Thursday.

PBI requested the Sylhet Medical College authority to form a board to carry out the post-mortem, he added.

While asked if it happened only for Tk 10,000 or other reason, the PBI chief said that they had been investigating for two days while keeping every possibility in mind.

Four police officers, including the in-charge of Bandar Bazar outpost of Kotwali police station in Sylhet, were suspended and three others were withdrawn from the outpost on Monday for their suspected involvement over torturing the man to death in police custody on the previous day.

The police outpost in-charge Akbar Ali Bhuiyan, its constables Harunur Rashid, Tauhid Mia and Titu Chandra Das were suspended, and assistant sub-inspectors Ashek Elahi and Kutub Ali and constable Sajib Hossain were withdrawn from the outpost, said Sylhet Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner Jyotirmay Sarker.