The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member probe committee to investigate the incident of the police constable who opened fire indiscriminately to his fellow constable and shot him dead in front of the Palestine embassy in Dhaka on Saturday night.
The committee, headed by the DMP鈥檚 Gulshan division deputy commissioner Rifat Rahman Shamim, was asked to submit probe report within seven days.
The DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman signed the order dated on Saturday, said the DMP officials.
鈥楾he DMP has selected three-member from three different divisions. I am assigned as the head of the probe committee,鈥� Rifat Rahman told 抖阴精品 on Monday.聽
The other members of the committee are the DMP鈥檚 Diplomatic Security Division鈥檚 additional deputy commissioner Elin Chowdhury and its Intelligence and Analysis Division assistant commissioner Ashfaq Ahmed.
Two people, including a pedestrian and a driver employed at the Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, were injured in the incident.
The deceased, Monirul Islam, 27, was a resident of Atpara in Netrakona, while the attacker Kawser Ahmed, 41, is a resident of Daulatpur in Kushtia.
Kawser Ahmed鈥檚 wife Nilufar Yasmin Sathi told 抖阴精品 over phone on Monday that her husband was suffering from mental illness, and he was admitted to Pabna Mental Hospital for three times and National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital in Dhaka鈥檚 Shyamoli for two times after 2010.
鈥楳y husband used to take medicine for mental health disorders. I have his prescription,鈥� said Sathi, who tied the knot with Kawser in 2006.
Kawser joined the police on December 14, 2005, she mentioned.聽
Replying the question about the police department was aware of the accused constable鈥檚 mental health disorders, the DC Rifat said, 鈥榃e did not want to disclose anything before the investigation.鈥�
A case has been filed with the Gulshan police station, and two separate investigations are under way, he mentioned.
He also said that they would inform about it after completing the investigation.
Replying another question about how a police experiencing mental health problems was given duty with fire arms in the capital鈥檚 diplomatic zone, he said, 鈥楧id I say he is mad? We are investigating the matter seriously.鈥�
Monirul鈥檚 elder brother Mahbubul Haque filed a murder case with the Gulshan police station on Sunday.聽
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Sunday placed in remand Kawser in police custody for seven days against a 10-day remand prayer of the Gulshan police sub-inspector Md Mannaf, also the investigation officer in the case.
Kawser and Monirul were engaged in an altercation before the murder incident but the topic of the conversation is yet to be confirmed, said the DMP Gulshan DC.聽聽
According to the Gulshan police OC Mazharul, the body was handed over to the deceased brother after an autopsy at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital on Sunday night and he聽 was buried at his village home in Netrokona on Monday.
It took about half an hour to unarm and detain the attacker Kawser by three special police forces, including the SWAT and the DMP Detective Branch.