Police ASP’s death: 10 hospital staff put on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court on Tuesday put ten staff of Mind Aid Hospital in Adabor on a 7-day remand each in a case over beating Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anisul Karim to death at the hosptial.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court Judge Md Shahidul Islam passed the order when investigation officer Faruk Mollah, Officer-in-Charge of Adabor Police Station, sought a 10-day remand to interrogate each of them.

Those remanded are Hospital Marketing Manager Arif Mahmud, Coordinator Redwan Sabbir, Kitchen chef Md Masud, ward boy Zubayer Hossain, pharmacist Md Tanvir Hasan, ward boy Tanim Mollah, Sujit Chowdhury, Ashim Chandra Pal, Liton Ahmed and Saiful Islam Polash.

According to the case statement, the police official had been suffering from mental illness and was taken to the hospital for treatment at 11 am on Monday. After admission , the hospital staff informed his relatives that Anisul Karim got fainted.

Later, Anisul’s relatives took him to National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases where doctors declared him dead. A CCTV footage of the room showed that the hospital staff was beating Anisul taking him to a room.

source: UNB