Pamela D'Silva (Saba), an officer of Qatar Airways in Dhaka, yesterday lodged a formal complaint with CMP Commissioner Md Moinur Rahman Chowdhury against AC Mofazzal Hoque in this regard.

The CMP Commissioner while talking to journalists regretted the incident and said action would be taken after departmental investigation into the matter.

Witnesses said Pamela was returning to Chittagong from Dhaka aboard an air-conditioned bus of Silk Line Paribahan on Saturday afternoon.

The wife, brother-in-law and mother-in-law of Mofazzal were also the passengers of the same bus.

As the bus was crossing the City Gate at around 9:30pm, a team of cops stopped the bus and got inside it in search of Pamela while plainclothes Mofazzal, who was standing in front of the door, forced her to get down, they said.

"As I got down from the bus, Mofazzal angrily ordered me to go to my residence (Jamal Khan Road) on foot from there. At this I got so frightened that I could not move for a while. Then I tried to hire a CNG auto-rickshaw, but the police officer again interfered and threatened the taxi driver not to carry me. Observing the scene, other passengers of the bus came to my rescue and helped me get on the bus again," Pamela alleged in her complaint.

She said the entire incident developed from a trifling matter that took place earlier in the noon in Dhaka while she was going to Arambagh main counter of Silk Line on board a minibus from Shukrabad.

"An altercation took place with Mofazzal's wife on that minibus that made her so infuriated that the lady immediately informed her husband over mobile phone and threatened me with serious consequences after my arrival in Chittagong," Pamela said.

When contacted, Mofazzal admitted the incident of altercation but denied the allegation of harassment or misuse of power.

"I went to City Gate just to receive my wife and others," he explained.