ASP Shipon murder case, 15 indicted including Mental Hospital Registrar

Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 15 people including National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital Registrar Abdullah Al Mamun in a case filed over beating Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anisul Karim Shipon to death.

Judge Sheikh Samidul Islam of the Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court of Dhaka framed the charges against the accused rejecting their exemption plea.

The court fixed November 9 to record the depositions of the witnesses of the case.

State Prosecutor Salauddin Hawlader confirmed the matter to the media.

The other accused are Director of Mind Aid Hospital Arif Mahmud, Pharmacist Tanvir Hasan, Officer Sakhawat Hossain, Sajjad Amin and Fatema Khatun, Coordinator of the hospital Redwan Sabbir, hospital staff Masud Khan, Jobaer Hossain, Tanif Mollah, Sajeeb Chowdhury, Asim Kumar Pal, Liton Ahmed, Saiful Islam and Abdullah Al-Amin.

The Investigation Officer (IO) the case dropped the names of FIR-named accused Dr Nusrat from the charge sheet as her involvement was not found during the investigation.

Name of another accused, Mind Aid Hospital Director Muhammad Niaz Morshed, was also dropped from the charge sheet as he died earlier.

According to the case statement, Senior ASP Anisul Karim Shipon went to the Mind Aid Hospital on November 9, 2020, for taking treatment.

At one stage, the employees of the hospital started beating him mercilessly, which got recorded in the CCTV cameras installed in the hospital. Anisul Karim Shipon later succumbed to his injuries.

Shipon’s father Freedom Fighter Md Faizuddin Ahammed on November 10, 2020, filed the case with Adabor Police Station in the capital against 15 people.

Inspector AKM Nasir Ullah of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), the Investigation Officer of the case, submitted the supplementary charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka on November 30 last year.