Death of Prisoner
Bogra jailor, 4 others sued for 'torture’
Our Correspondent, Bogra
Bogra Jail Superintendent AKM Zahir Uddin and four other officials have been sued for alleged torture and lax in treatment of a prisoner --Abdur Razzaque--, who died on June 16 this year. The victim's mother, Rokey Begum, filled the case with the court of a First Class Magistrate in Bogra. Rokeya Begum, wife of Abdul Jabber of Modapara in Bogra town, complained that her son Razzaque was sent to jail on September 12 last year in a "fake case" filed under the Woman and Child Repression Prevention Act. She alleged that her son fell sick in jail in June this year. A pharmacist demanded money for her son's treatment and she gave him the money. But the authorities did not take proper care of her son, she alleged. She had also sent medicines for her ailing son, but those did not reach him, she further alleged. On June 16 this year, she was informed by the jail authorities that her son Razzaque was shifted to Bogra Mohammed Ali Hospital for better treatment. But he died there on 16 June. The jail authorities informed her on 17 June that her son Razzaque died from lever problems, she said.
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