2 cases filed against Addl SP Kafi, police to seek remand

Two cases have been filed against Md Abdullahil Kafi, Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime and Operations) for Dhaka district, accusing him of burning bodies after killing students and people in Ashulia, Dhaka on August 5. 

A case was filed against him at Ashulia Police Station, and another at Hajaribagh Police Station.

The police will apply for remand of Kafi after showing him arrested in the cases.

Chief of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Rezaul Karim Mollik on Tuesday confirmed the matter to Jago News.

He said that two cases have been filed against him. A remand will be sought after he is shown as arrested in the cases. He will be asked about his involvement in the August 5 incident in Ashulia.

Earlier on Monday, he was detained at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

What happened in Ashulia on August 5?

A video circulating on social media shows police loading bodies of gunshot victims onto a van and covering them with a banner. This video was recorded near Ashulia police station in Dhaka on August 5, shortly after Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country.  

Police sources confirmed the date and location of the video after analysing Google geolocation data, and nearby images. 

Qadaruddin Shishir, head of fact-checking at AFP’s Bangladesh bureau, said the incident took place in an alley in front of the police station near Bypail Central Jame Masjid. 

The video shows two police officers stacking bodies. Local police and residents identified one officer as an inspector of DB police.

They also said the other officers, in plainclothes, wearing police helmets and bulletproof vests, are mostly from the same police branch.