The NSF, at an executive committee meeting yesterday afternoon, also decided to move in the higher court to defend the three shooters, a cook and an on-duty Ansar member who are facing charge for assaulting policemen.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday decided to provide legal assistance to the injured shooters.

A number of police officials felt embarrassed about Monday's police atrocities, especially on gold medallist shooter Asif Hossain Khan. They admitted that police's conduct was inappropriate over trivial arguments between the car chauffeur of deputy inspector general (DIG) and an NSF guard.

Police authorities, on Tuesday, suspended Havilder Nurul Islam, driver of DIG (Special Branch) Dr Sadiqur Rahman.

A large number of policemen stormed into the NSF complex and indiscriminately beat up shooters and complex staff on Monday after NSF guards scuffled with Nurul when he parked the car in front of NSF gate Monday noon.

Police arrested shooters Asif, Shoebuzzaman and Ali Hossain Shipu, cook Jahangir and Ansar member Zannatul Ferdousi and beat up Asif and Shoebuzzaman at Gulshan Police Station later again before sending them to the court after filing an 'assault on police' case against them.

Two days after the police atrocities on the shooters and NSF staff, the NSF executive committee met yesterday to decide their next course of action.

"We'll file a case against the policemen who were involved in Monday's assault and take it to the higher court to defend the five including three shooters," NSF General Secretary Nazimuddin Chowdhury told reporters while briefing about the meeting resolution.

Shooters, meantime, brought out a rally from the NSF complex and marched to Tongi Diversion Road parading the Gulshan-Tejgaon Link Road in protest at the police brutalities.

Sammilito Krira Paribar will form a human chain at Muktangan today to protest the police atrocities and demand trial and punishment of the policemen involved in it.

Meanwhile, the SCBA leaders yesterday visited injured Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist Asif Hossain Khan and Shoebuzzaman at Metropolitan Hospital.

Terming the attack barbaric, SCBA President Barrister Amir-Ul Islam told reporters that police brutally beat the shooters and the shooting complex staff and filed a case against them to harass them further.

"We'll provide them with all sorts of legal aid to face the case filed against them," he said.

The SCBA delegation also included former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, SCBA Vice President Abdul Mannan Khan, Assistant Secretary Motahar Hossain Saju, executive committee members Sheikh Akhtarul Islam and Fazlul Huq.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Detective Branch) Shahidul Islam, head of the one-member committee formed to probe Monday's incident, yesterday held talks NSF President Muyeed Chowdhury at the complex.

"I've sought a list of shooting complex staff and shooters whom we can talk with to know what exactly happened Monday," Shahidul told The Daily Star.

He will start interviewing them today after getting the list, he added.

The committee began its investigation Tuesday and will submit its report in a week.