Police have suspended two officials, including an assistant sub-inspector, over the killing of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayeed, who was allegedly shot dead by the police firing during the quota reform protests near the campus on July 16.
The suspended policemen are Tajhat police station ASI Amir Hosain and constable Sujan Chandra Ray.
Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Moniruzzaman told 抖阴精品 on Saturday that the聽 duo was suspended on August 1 and attached to the police lines for their 鈥榰nprofessional behaviour, negligence in duty, and violation of legal orders given by the high-ups.鈥�
The RMP commissioner said that the decision to suspend the two officials followed the interim report of a four-member committee, formed by the police to investigate the incident.
He added that further action would be taken after receiving the full report of the investigation team.
Earlier on July 1, the court granted bail to 16-year-old college student Md Alfi Shahriar Mahim, who was arrested in a case filed by police in connection with the murder of Abu Sayeed.
On July 16, video footage showed the police shooting at Abu Sayeed, who posed no physical threat to the law enforcers, during the quota reform demonstration near the university.
The Rangpur police, however, in their First Information Report of the case claimed that gunfire from the protesters caused Abu Sayeed鈥檚 death and that he was not a victim of police firing.
Tajhat police sub-inspector Bibhuti Bhusan Ray, who is also in-charge of the police camp on the Begum Rokeya University campus, filed the case with the police station over Sayeed鈥檚 death and violence on the campus on July 16.
At least 2,000鈥�3,000 unidentified people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir activists, were accused in the case.
According to the FIR, demonstrators fired shots and threw brick chunks from different directions, and at one stage, a student was seen falling to the ground.
His classmates took the student, Abu Sayeed, 23, to Rangpur Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead, the FIR said.
