Outlawed outfit Sarbahara in 1975 had raided Rajbari’s Pangsha Police Station, where the just-slain Fazlul Karim was the Officer-in-Charge at the time, to loot arms.
Published : 30 Aug 2013, 01:55 AM
Karim, with only a constable, fought the outlaws, while others fled the Police Station during the attack, according to one of his colleagues.
Karim’s colleague Khalequzzaman, now an Assistant Superintendent of Police, said recollecting the incident: “He kept fighting from inside the Police Station building. Sarbahara members fled the scene at around 5am leaving the bodies of three of their colleagues.”
He said Karim was awarded the Bangladesh Police Medal for his bravery that night.
Miscreants shot dead the fearless police officer, who retired as an Additional Superintendent of Police of the Criminal Investigation Department six years ago, at his residence at Rampura in Dhaka on Thursday.
Several of Karim's colleagues rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital to see him.
CID Special SP Abdul Kahar Akhand told bdnews24.com at the hospital that Karim was the investigation officer of many sensational cases in the 1980s.
Assistant Inspector Intejar Rahman, who was a colleague of Karim's, remembered what he had done while investing a robbery case in Dhaka’s Moghbazar in the 80s.