A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed ten accused on a 7-day remand in a case filed over the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Anisul Karim Shipon.
All the accused are employees of the city’s Mind Aid Hospital. Judge granted the remand when police produced them before the court seeking 10-day remand.
Mrittunjoy Dey Sajal, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Mohammadpur zone) confirmed it.
Earlier in the morning, police said ten people were arrested in connection of the death.
The arrested were identified as hospital's Coordinator Redwan Sabbir, 23, Marketing Manager Arif Mahmud Joy, 35, kitchen chef Md Masud, 37, Pharmacist Tanvir Hasan, 18, ward boys Md Liton Ahmmed, 18, Md Saiful Islam Palash, 35, Jobayer Hossain, 19, Tanif Molla, 20, Sanjib Chowdhury, 20 and Ashim Chandra Paul, 24.
Anisul Karim died at 'Mind Aid Hospital' some moments after he went to the hospital for treatment.
His family members alleged that the hospital employees beat him to death. Police have also collected CCTV footage from the hospital of the incident.
It was seen that at around 11:55 pm police officer Anisul Karim was dragged into a room by several employees. He was thrown to the ground by six employees of the hospital. Then two more employees dressed in blue grabbed his leg. At that time two employees on the side of the head were hitting him with their elbows. Arif Mahmud, the manager of the hospital, was standing next to him. Anisul's hands were tied behind her back with a piece of blue cloth.
When Anisul was turned upside down four minutes later, his body was numb. An employee then splashed water on his face. Anisul Karim was not moving even then. The staff then cleaned the floor of the room. Seven minutes later a woman wearing a white apron entered the room. The door of the room was closed in 11 minutes. She pumped his chest in 13 minutes and failed to regain his sense.
Inspector Jan-e Alam Mia, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station told that Anisul died before being brought to the Institute of Cardiology. 'Brought dead' was written in the report of the hospital.
Terming the death as a murder, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mohammad Harun-ur-Rashid said that the incident was not any untoward one.
He said, "The way the hospital staffers dragged him in the room and pushed him on the floor and beat him, it was murder.” All the involved staffs of the hospital will be brought under trial, the police official added.
He further said that the hospital authorities could not show any legal documents and license which are required to run a mental hospital. It will be sealed off.
Police will also investigate why and how the ASP Shipon was transferred to this hospital from the National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital. "Whether there was involvement of any broker behind his shifting to that hospital, it will be investigated," he said.
Mind Aid Hospital, where Anisul Karim Shipon was murdered, was being run without any psychiatric, said police.
The hospital in the capital's Adabor area, was being run by the board of directors, coordinators, co-managers and ward boys, said Harun-Ur-Rashid.
Besides, the hospital does not have any license from the Department of Narcotics and legal documents, which are mandatory to run a mental hospital, said the police official.
He said the hospital's board of directors was running the hospital with coordinators, managers and ward boys and they do not study medicine.
"We have arrested everyone. Now they will be questioned on remand," said Harun.
Those who took the senior ASP to that room are not doctors. The way they tortured ASP Anisul shows that it is a big murder, he added further.
The hospital has one patient. It will be closed when the patient will leave the hospital.