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OC gets 3 yrs RI for torturing DU student

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 18 May 2015

Court Correspondent :A court of Dhaka yesterday sentenced Helal Uddin, a former Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Khilgaon Police Station to three years rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a case filed for torturing the then Dhaka University student Abdul Kader in police custody. Md Alamgir Kabir Raj First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka gave verdict on Sunday afternoon. The court also fined fugitive former police officer Helal Tk 10,000, in default, he will suffer three months more in prison. The punishment will begin from the date of his arrest or surrender to the court. Kader, a former student of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department of Dhaka University, filed the case against the accused on Jan 23, 2012 for torturing him after his arrest in 2011.According to the details of the case, plainclothed police personnel arrested Kader on July 16, 2011, while he was returning to Fazlul Haque Hall of DU from one of his relatives’ house in Eskaton area of the capital. Later, Kader joined Lakshmipur Government College as a teacher after qualifying in BCS (Education).