Another Sonagazi police OC has been transferred over allegations of trying to influence the murder probe of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.
OC Kamal Hossain has been attached to the Armed Police Battalion (APBN) headquarters as per the order from the police headquarters, Feni Additional Superintendent of Police Robiul Islam said on Thursday (Jun 27).
His transfer order came days after Bangla Tribune published a report on Jun 18 asking whether OC Kamal was getting away.
Previously, OC Moazzem Hossain was slapped with a lawsuit and then sent to jail for recording Nusrat’s statement of sexual harassment against now suspended madrasa principal Siraj-ud-Daula and then leaking it in social media.
However, OC Kamal who allegedly tried to save the perpetrators by cooperating with Moazzem in influencing the probe in a different direction, was getting away scot-free according to the report.
Moreover, they allegedly brought in five innocent people as suspects instead of the perpetrators the day Nusrat was set on fire.
Nusrat’s older brother who lodged the case said that Sonagazi Model police OC Kamal went to Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s Burn Unit where Nusrat was undergoing treatment two days after she was she was set on fire.
“He came with a draft for the list of accused where I named madrasa principal Siraj-ud-Daula as the primary accused and then eight others,” he said.
He added that later the media reported that the police lodged the case against four masked assailants and their unnamed accomplices.
He then demanded the transfer of OC Kamal and that he doesn’t get away.