DHAKA, Aug 20, 2024 (BSS)- A case has been filed against 15 police officers 
including the former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-
Mamun, for allegedly beating lawyers with intention to kill them, during a 
rally on September last year.

Today, lawyer Hannan Bhuiyan made an application in the court of Dhaka 
Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam.

The court accepted the statement of the plaintiff and directed Kotwali Police 
Station to accept the complaint as a First Information Report (FIR).

The other accused are Former Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) 
Khandaker Ghulam Faruk, Former Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Lalbagh Zone Jafor 
Hossain, Former AC Kotwali Shahinur Rahman, Current DC (Prosecution) Anisur 
Rahman, Former ADC Kotwali Muhit Kabir Serniabat, Former ADC (Lalbagh Zone) 
Shahidul Islam, former Officer- in-Charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station 
Shahinur Rahman, OC (Operation) Nazmul Hasan, OC (Investigation) Mehedi 
Hasan, Sub-Inspector (SI) Shahabuddin Hawladar, Constables M. Mahbub Alam, M. 
Abdur Rashid, Ramzan Molla and In-charge of Babubazar Police Outpost Faheyat 
Uddin Raktim.

According to the case statement, the complainant alleged that they brought 
out a procession under the banner of "United Lawyers Front" of Dhaka Bar 
Association Unit on September 12 last year.

Police stopped them and tried to assault some female lawyers present there 
when they went in front of the main road adjacent to the Dhaka District 
Judge's Court. Many lawyers were injured during the time.

AT one point, the lawyers' protested their action and police flogged them 
mercilessly.

The accused in connivance with each other stopped the lawyers and attacked 
them with the intent to kill and inflicted serious bloody injuries amounting 
grievous hurt, the statement added.