ADC Harun transferred to APBn

A new posting order for additional Deputy Commissioner (Ramna Zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Harun Ar Rashid, was issued .

A new posting order for additional Deputy Commissioner (Ramna Zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Harun Ar Rashid, was issued by the Police Headquarters to Armed Police Battalion (APBn) on Sunday night.

The new posting order was given several hours after the DMP had issued a transfer order for ADC Harun from Ramna Crime Division to Public Order Management (POM) Division of the DMP for allegedly beating up two BCL men inside Shahbag Police Station on Saturday night.

"Harun Ar Rashid has been transferred to the POM  Division from Ramna Division of the DMP for the public interest till next order," the transfer order of the DMP, issued by DMP Commissioner Khandaker Golam Faruk, reads.

The new posting order from the Police Headquarters also mentioned that ADC Harun must hand over his present charge to join his new work place APBn by September 12. Otherwise, he will be considered as an 'instant stand release' from September 13.

The transfer order was signed by IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.

The two leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of  ruling Bangladesh Awami League, are known as Anwar Hossain Nayeem, organising secretary, and Sharif Ahmed Munim, science affairs secretary. Both are the leaders of BCL central committee.

Talking to the witnesses of the incident, it was learned that ADC Harun and the two BCL leaders with some activists were locked in an altercation over a matter at BIRDEM Hospital at Shahbagh on Saturday evening.

However, ADC Harun managed to escape from there. After a while he appeared at the place of occurence with police forces and took Nayeem and Sharif to the Shahbagh Police Station and beat them up roughly.

Following this incident, no official complaint was filed from any side.

But talking to the respective people and BCL leaders, it has been learnt that ADC Harun was chatting with a woman police officer of the 33rd BCS (Police) cadre at BIRDEM Hospital. The woman police official's husband learnt about it and went there with Nayeem and Munim.  The woman officer's husband is also an administration cadre officer and former BCL leader, and all of them were from Gazipur.  When they reached at BIRDEM Hospital, they locked in an altercation with ADC Harun around 9:30pm.

Later, Harun went to Shahbag Police Station and returned with police force and took Sharif and Nayeem to the police station and tortured them in an inhumane manner.

Around 1:00 am at night, they were set free from the police station and taken to the hospital for treatment.

After Harun took them to thana, BCL Leaders and activists from Dhaka University went there but couldn't do anything as the main gate of thana was locked from inside.

The alleged victims and top BCL leaders did not make any official comment following this issue as there is no official complaint till now.