Please - Odhikar

The officer-in-charge of the Kakonhat police outpost, SI Shamsul Haque told Odhikar that on 27
July 2005 at around 8 pm, Sajuni Mardi, Satish, and Mansur came to Kakonhat police outpost.
Sajuni told him, " On 25 July in the evening, some villagers took me to a nearby paddy-field
and raped me" While she was talking to him, Satish and Mansur were waiting outside his room.
Sajuni was insisting on fileing a case. He suggested that she do so it in Godagari police station
because no case could be filed in the police outpost. Then she left. The SI commented that
failing to file a case, Sajuni got angry and brought false allegations of rape against him. He
further commented that if the allegation against him were true, Sajuni would certainly have filed
a rape case against him the next day in the Godagari police station, which she did not. On the
allegation of rape against him, he said, "How is it possible to rape a woman in presence of 3/4
constables and two outsiders in the police outpost?" He added that Sajuni did not bring an
allegation of rape against him but others did. He also termed Sajuni as a woman of bad
character.
The officer-in-charge of the Godagari police station, Nurul Amin, told Odhikar that the
allegation of rape against the police was completely false. He claimed that SI Shamsul Haque
was not a man of bad character. He further said that Sajuni Mardi did not make any allegation of
rape against any police officer in her case.
The particulars of the case filed by Sajuni Mardi are: Case number: 30, Date: 28/07/05, Law:
Section 9(1)/30 under amended Prevention of Repression against Women and children Act 2000,
Accused: Benedik Murmu (35), Simon Soren (48), Farian Hasna (30), Moses Tudu (30) and
Sumesh Soren
Police Torture of a Businessman in Chittagong
On 27 July 2005, Odhikar came to know from its human rights defender in Chittagong, of an
incident of police torture on a businessman in Chittagong. Odhikar conducted a fact-finding of
the incident and talked to the victim, the concerned physician and police.
The name of the victim was Tazuddin Chowdhury Tazu (28). Son of late Shahabuddin
Chowdhury, he is a restaurant businessman and used to reside in Jamal Khan Road in Chittagong
City. He informed Odhikar that on 25 July, while he was sitting in his restaurant 'Agra Fort', the
Assistant Commissioner of Detective Branch (ACDB) of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police,
Gazi Muhammad Jashimuddin, came to his restaurant with two constables at around 4.15 pm.
After descending from his car, he entered into the restaurant shouting abuse against the victim.
On seeing the police car, the guard of the restaurant Rafique saluted them but the ACDB said to
him, "This is a guard of an illegal business, beat him and throw him in the drain." His
accompanying constables immediately started beating Rafique with their cane sticks. There was
no one inside the restaurant except the owner Tazu himself and a job-seeker Anwarul Islam
Razu. On entering the restaurant, the ACDB started beating Tazu with his cane stick. The other
constables also followed him and started beating the waiters of the restaurant. At one stage, Tazu
wanted to know the police allegation, against him. However, the ACDB, without paying heed to
him, continued beating and allegedly said, "You run an illegal business and now want to know
about your offence?" Victim Tazu allegedly said, "Sir would you please tell me what illegal
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