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A team of Detective Branch police detained van driver Ashraf Ali,42, from Gazipur on 4 May and after a one-day 'interrogation', he died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital on 6 May.

Ashraf was in a perfect health prior to his interrogation at the Minto Road DB office in Dhaka, but fell seriously ill on 6 May. He died within 38 hours of being detained and after three hours of being taken to hospital.

His relatives claimed Ashraf died due to DB police torture. Ashraf had bruises all over his body.

According to the hospital authorities, the DB officers did not want to provide any information about his identity or where he had been arrested. He had been admitted there under a false name, Aslam. The police asked the physician to issue a death certificate indicating he died of natural causes. But there were bruises all over the dead body so the certificate wasn't issued.

According to Prothom Alo investigations, Ashraf was from the village Dahan in Charpak of Madarganj upazila, Jamalpur. He had six brothers and a sister. Ashraf had married thrice and lived with his third wife in Poshchim Dogri of Mirzapur, Gazipur.

The van he drove belonged to the company Decor Weight Processing Limited. The DB police picked him up along with his wife Ripa and their two children on 4 May midnight.

Ashraf's relatives said he served as a source in the Ashulia area for the DB before.

Asked about Ashraf's sudden sickness in custody, the Dhaka metropolitan DB joint commissioner Abdul Baten said, Ashraf had demanded ransom of a hundred thousand taka from the family of Niamul, a Qatar migrant who was missing. He said the police were investigating Ashraf's mobile phone records and called him with his wife for interrogation. But, Ashraf felt ill. Ashraf's wife said he was a hernia patient. They took him to the hospital and he died there.

About the bruises, Abdul Baten said, "Just because you claim there are bruises, doesn't make that true. The autopsy has to be done and then it will be revealed what actually happened."

When asked why his name had been filed as 'Aslam', Baten said, "You find out his real name on your own."

The Dhaka Metropolitan additional deputy commissioner Mahmud Naser had been investigating the missing case of Niamul. When contacted over phone, he declined to talk on the matter.

The DB officials handed over Ashraf's body to his brother Abdur Rashid. Abdur Rashid said, "His whole body is covered in bruises. No one could survive such torture."

Ashraf was fine

Ashraf moved to Poshchim Dogri in Gazipur on 22 April. This reporter talked to the owner of the house where he stayed and also to other tenants there on 9 May. The landlord Abdul Halim said about 15 to 20 DB officials came in two vehicles around 1:00 am 4 May. They searched every tenant's room. Then they went to Ashraf's room and blindfolded him and Ripa. They beat up Ashraf and took him away. He had walked normally to the vehicle.

Ashraf's office was near his house. The company director Zahirul Islam said, Ashraf had been working for them since February. He hadn't ever taken leave nor had he complained of being unwell.

Ashraf's brother Abdur Rashid said they didn't know anything about any sickness.

Autopsy lacks mention of bruises

The autopsy report does not match the description given by Ashraf's brother and his second wife, Nasima. They said there were blood clots from both of his knees to his heels and other bruises too.

However, the autopsy report submitted by Shahbagh police station sub-inspector Harichand Hajra and Mosharraf Hossain only mentioned "slight darkish patches on both legs."

The autopsy had been carried out by a three-member medical board headed by the forensic department head Sohel Mahmud at the DMCH morgue on 7 May. Sohel Mahmud said, the dead body had bruises on both legs and his intestines were twisted. He added, the actual cause of death would be discerned once the viscera report was done.

DB escorts victim's family and vehicle with dead body

Two of Ashraf's wives and his elder brother Abdur Rashid came to DMCH from Ashulia on 7 May morning. The DB team had been awaiting them. They took them by microbus to the Minto Road office of DB.

Abdur Rashid said, senior officials of DB greeted them and offered them refreshments. Around 2:00pm Rashid and Ashraf's father-in-law were taken to DMCH in a DB vehicle.

They stayed with the DB members in the vehicle till 8:00 pm. Rashid said, the law enforcers made him sign a written document and also a blank sheet of paper, and then handed over the dead body.

He said, the DB men then rented a microbus for Tk 6000 and an ambulance for Tk 7500. Then they ordered them to get into the microbus and to take the dead body home by the ambulance.

The DB police followed them in a different vehicle up till the Gazipur intersection, Rashid said.

The missing Qatar migrant

Niamul's brother, Nazmul Hossain, filed a general diary with the Shah Ali police station of Dhaka on 26 April alleging that his brother was missing.

Shah Ali police station SI Anuj Kumar Sarkar, who had been investigating the matter, said according to the report, Niamul went to see his cousin in Mirpur-1. Later, he went to meet a friend around 11:00 am on 25 April. He had been missing since then.

Anuj Kumar said, the DB additional deputy commissioner Mahmud Naser asked him for information on Niamul including his mobile phone call list. He did not conduct any further investigation.

After Ashraf's death, Nazmul Hossain filed a case on 6 May with Shah Ali police station, alleging Niamul had been kidnapped. The officer-in-charge Mohammad Anwar Hossain said no one had been named in the case. It had only been stated that one million taka ransom had been demanded by the kidnapper.

Ashraf's crime

Nazmul Hossain said, Ashraf actually didn't know anything about the kidnapping of his brother.

He said, Ashraf only claimed over phone that he knew Niamul's whereabouts, but that was a bluff. Ashraf also demanded ransom money.

Ashraf's father-in-law did not want to comment on Ashraf's detention, nor did he allow this reporter to talk to his daughter.

Ashraf's family cannot accept his unnatural death. His second wife Nasima said, if he had committed crime, then he should have been prosecuted. But, without any trial, the DB police beat him to death, she said.

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