Ex-civil surgeon jailed: ADC, UNO seek unconditional apology

The additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Laxmipur and Sadar UNO on Wednesday sought unconditional apology to the High Court over three-month imprisonment of former civil surgeon of the district allegedly for assaulting the ADC.

Lawyers of the duo - ADC Sheikh Morshedul Islam and UNO Kamruzzaman - filed the petitions before the HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah in the morning.

On December 5, the High Court summoned the duo to appear before the court at 10:30 am on December 13 and explain the three-month imprisonment of former civil surgeon of the district allegedly for assaulting the ADC.

The court came up with the order following a writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyers Advocate Kamal Hossain Niazi and Advocate Ashfaqur Rahman.

It also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the misuse of the mobile court out of personal grudge should not be declared illegal.

Earlier on Dec 4, former Civil Surgeon of Laxmipur Dr Salahuddin Sharif was sentenced to three months imprisonment by the mobile court, led by Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Kamruzzaman, for allegedly assaulting Sheikh Morshedul.

Dr Salauddin and Morshedul went to kindergarten Kakoli Shishu Angan in the district town to pick up their grandson and son respectively around 10:15 am. The duo locked into a brawl following shoving at the crowded school gate. 

At one stage of brawl, the ADC slapped the retired civil surgeon and he also retaliated by doing the same.

Later, police detained Dr Salauddin and produced him before the mobile court which handed down the verdict. 

Meanwhile, a Laxmipur court later granted bail to the former civil surgeon on a bond of Tk 5,000.

Mir Shawkat Ali, additional district magistrate (ADM), passed the order after Rasel Mahmud Manna, lawyer of Dr Salahuddin Sharif, filed the bail petition.

Source: unb