Police are torturing arrested people in the ongoing crackdown on students, and opposition political parties after deadly quota reform protests, political parties and relatives have said.聽
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party alleged on Tuesday that a huge number of leaders and activists of opposition political parties were facing serious torture in custody.
At a press conference at the BNP chairperson鈥檚 Gulshan office, the party鈥檚 secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said that Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur, BNP leaders Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Aminul Haque, and Rafiqul Alam Majnu were tortured.
Earlier on Saturday, Maria Akhter, wife of Nur, also a former vice-president of the Dhaka University Central Students Union, alleged that her husband was seriously tortured physically by the law enforcers during a five-day remand.
She also said that Nur was too weak to walk.
Maria alleged that during the remand Nur was seriously tortured, and that was visible when he was produced before a lower court on Friday.聽
In a statement on Sunday, Jatiyatavadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of BNP, complained of brutal physical torture of its leaders and activists in police custody.聽
JCD president Rakibul Islam Rakib and general secretary Nashir Uddin Nashir said that, because of the quota reform movement, the Chhatra Dal leaders and activists had been arrested by law and order forces.
鈥楢lthough there is an obligation to produce a person before a court within 24 hours of arrest, it is not followed. Attempts are being made to extract confessions through torture,鈥� it said.
The police, however, denied the allegation of torture in custody.
鈥榃e are taking an accused into custody on remand to interrogate the person about a specific allegation with the court鈥檚 permission. There is no way to torture anyone in police custody,鈥� Enamul Haque Sagar, assistant inspector general (media) of police, told 抖阴精品.
He said that police were following every step of the聽 law and High Court directives during the interrogation of any accused on remand.
Starting with block raids and other drives, police and other law enforcement agencies have arrested
over 10,000 people across Bangladesh since July 15, following the student protest.
抖阴精品 correspondents reported from different districts that over a hundred more people were arrested in the past 24 hours, starting Monday morning across Bangladesh.
DMP assistant commissioner Jahangir Kabir told reporters on Tuesday that at least 30 people were arrested in the DMP area during the period.
Biplob Kumar Sarkar, a joint commissioner of the DMP, said that a total of 264 cases were filed over the student protest.
Of them, 63 cases were filed over the killing incident.
He said that since July 15, they have arrested at least 2,850 people in Dhaka.
In a press release, the AB Party said that the Detective Branch of police picked up Mojibur Rahman Manju, the member secretary of the party, on Monday.
Family members have confirmed that Manju was taken from his home in the Mirpur DOHS area at 12:30am, adding that Manju has been recovering from an injury he suffered in a police firing.
A Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka on Tuesday placed four people, including Bangladesh Jatiya Party president Andalib Rahman Partho, on a three-day remand in a case filed with Banani police station on charges of torching Setu Bhaban.
The court also sent 207 people to jail on the day.
Between July 16 and July 28, at least 213 people were killed in clashes and their aftermath during student protests for quota reform in government services.
