SI Shahadat remanded over killing of colleague's son in Jatrabari

A Dhaka court on Monday placed Shahbagh Police Station sub-inspector (SI) Shahadat Ali on a six-day remand in a case lodged over the killing of Imam Hossain Tayem, son of sub-inspector Md Moynal Hossain, in the capital's Jatrabari area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharraf Hossain passed the order as police produced the disgraced cop before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand. 

Tayem's mother Mst Pervin Akter filed the case on August 20 against five including police's Wari division deputy commissioner (DC) Mohammad Iqbal Hossain.

The other five accused are additional deputy commissioner Shakil Mohammad Shamim, assistant commissioner Tanjil Ahmed, Jatrabari Police Station officer-in-charge Jakir Hossain, and SI Shahadat Ali. 

According to the case documents, Tayem and two of his friends went to a tea stall in Kazla area in Jatrabari on July 20. The quota reform movement activists were staging protests in the area. Following the order of DC Mohammad Iqbal, ADC Shamim and AC Tanjil, policemen suddenly started firing tear shells, rubber bullets and life rounds, and throwing sound grenades at the protesters. 

As the quota protesters were running for their lives, Tayem and his friends hid inside the tea stall, but the policemen brought them out from there and OC Zakir ordered them to run. As they started running, policemen shot at them in cold blood, killing Tayem on the spot.