The OC of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Khilkhet station has gone missing for the past four days. Shamim Hossain was last seen going out of his workstation on Saturday complaining of sickness.Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Anowar Hossain, said the Deputy Commissioner of police’s Gulshan Division had been tasked to submit a report on Shamim’s whereabouts and type of illness.
“We have received a ’28-day sick report’ from a Rajarbagh Police Hospital doctor for the Khilkhet police OC,” he said. “We are looking into it.”
An officer at the Khilkhet Police Station said they could not reach Hossain.
“He left his official mobile at the police station and his personal number is switched off,” said the official, who preferred anonymity.
Hossain was not at his Dhaka residence which was found locked from outside.
The official said: “We have certain reasons to believe that Shamim Hossain had left for the USA with his family without informing anyone.”
When approached, Khilkhet police’s acting OC KM Ashrafuddin, an Inspector, said he was unaware whether Hossain had gone to the US. He had left the police station saying he was ill.
Hossain had joined the Khilkhet Police Station as the OC on Aug 19, 2010. – bdnews24.com
