ADC Harun suspended

Additional Deputy Commissioner Harun Or Rashid of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been temporarily suspended for allegedly beating up two BCL leaders inside Shahbagh police station.

The police-1 branch of the public security division of the home ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Monday.

Earlier on Sunday, ADC Harun of Ramna Division was withdrawn and attached to DMP’s Public Order Management (POM) Division.

It was learned that ADC Harun was gossiping with a woman at BIRDEM General Hospital, Dhaka on Saturday night. At that time, the woman’s husband along with Chhatra League’s central Organizing Secretary Anwar Hossain and Science Affairs Secretary Sharif Ahmed Munim went there.

At one stage, Harun and the BCL leaders locked into an altercation and scuffle, and later, he along with the police force took the duo to Shahbagh Police Station and beat up them.