Seven police officers, including three additional inspector generals of police, were sent into forced retirement on Sunday.
The police officials are Debdas Bhattacharya, additional IGP of railway police, AKM Hafiz Akter, deputy inspector general of industrial police (Addl-IGP supernumerary posts) and Bashir Ahmad, DIG of police telecom (Addl-IGP supernumerary posts), Md Mizanur Rahman, commandant (police super), RRF, Dhaka, Md Dadan Fakir, assistant police commissioner of Dhaka metropolitan police, Md Shamim Or Rashid of DMP and Md Rafiqul Islam, assistant police super of Armed Police Battalion Headquarters.
In this regard, the public security division of the ministry of home affairs issued seven separate gazette notifications, signed by senior secretary Mohammad Abdul Momen.
According to the notifications, the police officials have been sent into retirement from government service in the public interest as per the provisions of section 45 of the Public Service Act, 2018.
They would be entitled to get all fringes of retirement benefits as per the rules, the notifications added.