The policeman in the Tip case said that he is innocent
Police constable Nazmul Tarek, who lost his job after
allegedly harassing a woman for wearing a tip, has pleaded not guilty. He said,
'I am a victim. I was working. I could not speak for this. Action has been
taken against me without any evidence in the incident.'
Constable Nazmul also said that he has been protesting
against the incident for a long time in front of the National Press Club. Apart
from the investigating officer of the incident, he demanded the punishment of
the complainant Lata Samdar.
Nazmul Tarek said these things in a press conference in the
presence of his wife and children at Dhaka Reporters Unity today.
At the beginning of last April, Lata Samaddar, a lecturer of
Tejgaon College in the capital's Farmgate, complained against policeman Nazmul
of being harassed for wearing a tip. Later he was identified and suspended from
the job. Then he was fired last month.
He was working in Protection Department of Dhaka
Metropolitan Police (DMP).
This former policeman said, 'I apologize to the countrymen for driving the
motorcycle in the opposite direction on the road. On that day the complainant
was accidentally hit by a bike. When I apologized to him and wanted to leave,
he grabbed the shoulder of my uniform and threw it away. The tip-off has been
arranged to cover up this incident.'
Nazmul complained that the trial was conducted without
observing the CCTV footage at the scene. Officials in charge gave fabricated
reports. He is innocent. Because, they could not show clear information and
evidence. Being a lowly worker, he could not speak. He added, 'I have been
tried to be radicalized because of my job opportunity and my beard and hat.'
The dismissed policeman said, 'I am not an alien. I saw the tip first, not that I would question him about the tip. Did he really want to create a communal issue in a planned way? I have broken the traffic law, I can be prosecuted under the traffic law. But the job can't go away.'
Nazmul claimed that a member of Parliament had spoken about
this incident without knowing it, and said that he should also apologize.
In the press conference, Nazmul's wife Maisha Akhter said,
'No eating, no drinking. We stayed at the press club day after day. If my
husband is a criminal. May he be punished to the maximum. But without revealing
the truth, our family of seven-eight people has been put on the road. We want
the truth to come out. Let the CCTV footage of the spot be released.'
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