ASP Shipon death at Dhaka hospital: 10 persons placed on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court today placed 10 accused on a seven days remand each in a case filed over the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim, who was assaulted by staffers of a hospital in Dhaka yesterday during undergoing treatment of his mental health complications.

Judge granted the remand after police produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand prayer, Mrittunjoy Dey Sajal, additional deputy commissioner (Mohammadpur Zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said.

Earlier in the day police arrested 10 people in connection with the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim.

The arrestees Arif Mahmud Joy, 35, Redwan Sabbir, 23, Md Masud, 37, Md Tanvir Hasan, 18 and Zobair Hossain, 19, Tanif Mollah, 20, Sojib Chowdhury,20, Asim Chandra Pal, 24, Md Liton Ahmmad, 18, and Md Saidul Islam Palash, 35 are staff of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital, police said.

While addressing a press conference, Harun-Ur-Rashid, deputy commissioner (Tejgaon Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, described the death incident as murder and said the hospital staffers dragged him in a room, pushed him on floor and beat him up.

“It was a murder,” the DC said at the press conference referring to a CCTV footage that showed eight to nine staffers of the hospital were beating the police officer after tying his hands up.

“No doctors were seen in the footage,” the DC said and sounded a note of caution that all the people responsible for the murder will be brought under trial.  

He also said the hospital was running without any permission of the concern authorities and they have failed to show any valid document in support of the operation.

“It will be sealed off immediately,” DC Harun-Ur-Rashid said.

Earlier, he said, “Investigation is going on and action will be taken. Several people, including the manager of Mind Aid Hospital, have been detained in this connection,” he said.

A case was filed at Adabor Police Station early today over the death of Barishal Metropolitan Police’s (BMP) Senior ASP Anisul Karim Shipon.

His father Faizuddin Ahmed filed the case against some unknown people, said Inspector Faruk Molla.

Mohammad Rezaul Karim Sabuj, brother of the victim, said Anisul was posted at BMP as assistant commissioner (traffic).

On Monday morning, he was brought to Dhaka National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH) from Barishal around 6:30am as he has been suffering from mental illness.

From there, Anisul was taken to Mind Aid Hospital in the city's Adabor area around 11:30am. He was taken to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases where doctors said Anisul had died before being brought here.

When Sabuj informed police, they collected the CCTV footage of the hospital which showed some people dragging Anisul and beating him up while being taken to the washroom.

Sabuj said his brother was killed by the staffers of Mind Aid Hospital.

Anisul was laid to rest at the central graveyard of Gazipur city after a namaz-e-janaza at Bhawal Rajbari field early today.