The High Court observed that some deputy commissioners and officers-in-charge of police stations considering themselves as ‘Zamindars’ or feudal lords and act as they are higher than all.
The observation made while hearing a bail petition filed by ex-Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain. The police official was sued for recording a statement of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was burnt to death in Feni, on his mobile phone and circulating the video clip on social media.
According to court said Moazzem, the then Officer-in-Charge of Sonagazi Police Station, failed to protect the life of madrasa student Nusrat and also hampered police department’s image.
After hearing the arguments, the HC bench of Justice Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Khizir Hayat rejected the bail petition on the grounds that it was not properly moved before the court.
Supreme Court lawyer Sayedul Haque Suman filed the case against Moazzem under the Digital Security Act on April