DMP transfers six top officers of Mirpur, Pallabi after police station blast

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police transferred six top officials of their Mirpur Division and Pallabi Zone, 11 days after an explosion at Pallabi Police Station left five people, including four policemen, injured.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 8 August 2020, 06:04 PM
Updated : 8 August 2020, 06:27 PM

The transferred officials include Md Mostaque Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Mirpur Division, Md Mizanur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of Pallabi Zone and Assistant Commissioner Md Firoz Kausar.

The three others are Pallabi Police Station OC Md Nazrul Islam, and inspectors Mohammad Abdul Mabud and Md Emranul Islam.

DMP Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam announced the transfers in separate orders on Saturday.

Mostaque has been transferred to the DMP’s Protection Division, Mizanur to the Operation Division, and Firoz to the Welfare and Force Division.

The three others are Pallabi Police Station OC Md Nazrul Islam, and inspectors Mohammad Abdul Mabud and Md Emranul Islam.

DC ASM Mahatabuddin of the Protection Division, ADC Md Ariful Islam of the Operation Division, and the Welfare and Force Division’s AC Md Shah Kamal have replaced the three top police officials of Mirpur and Pallabi.

OC Nazrul has been sent to the Prosecution Division, and the two inspectors to the Detective Branch.

Sutrapur police chief Kazi Wazed Ali has been made the OC of Pallabi Police Station. Inspectors Abu Sayeed Al Mamun and Md Yamin Kabir of Sutrapur Police Station have also been sent to Pallabi.

An explosion at the Pallabi Police Station left an inspector and four others injured on Jul 29.

The law-enforcement agency said a 'weighing machine', packed with explosives, exploded after three men were arrested with firearms and the machine during a raid.

Police described the suspects as ‘contract killers’ arrested in the wee hours but family members of a suspect gave a different account of the detention, raising questions over the police version of the story.