Mind Aid Hospital sealed off, owner arrested
Mind Aid Hospital at Adabar area in Dhaka was sealed off by police on Tuesday after a senior police official was allegedly tortured to death there on Monday.
Police sealed off a healthcare facility following the visit of Dhaka district civil surgeon Dr Abu Hossain Md Moinul Ahsan and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) assistant director Dr Ahsanul Huq on Tuesday afternoon.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Tejgaon division deputy commissioner Harun-ar-Rashid said that that they had sealed off the hospital because it had no licence from any office of Directorate General of Health Services.
Department of Narcotic Control assistant director Mehedi Hasan, however, said that that they had qualified Mind Aid Hospital a year ago. However they were taking initiatives to annul the licence.
Meanwhile, someone else was arrested in connection with the alleged murder of ASP Anisul. Dr Neaz Morshed, who is also one of the owners of your brain Aid Hospital, was arrested from Neuroscience Hospital area at Agargaon on Tuesday evening. With him, a complete of 11 persons like the marketing manager of a healthcare facility were arrested regarding the the death of Senior ASP Anisul Karim.
Senior ASP Anisul Karim, who had been experiencing mental illness, was taken up to your brain Aid Hospital by his relatives on Monday morning. Through the admission process, a healthcare facility workers dragged him to an area.
The CCTV footages showed that a healthcare facility personnel were physically assaulting Anisul Karim in the room. He then fell unconscious and died within a few minutes.
The ASP was then taken up to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, where doctors declared him dead.
His family later alleged that a healthcare facility employees had beaten him to death.
On Tuesday morning, Anisul Karim's father filed a case with Adabar Police Station accusing 15 persons. Police arrested 11 persons on a single day and 10 of these were positioned on a seven-day remand by a court.
DMP Tejgaon division DC said that the incident appeared to be a murder after analysing CCTV camera footages.
Deceased Anisul Karim was from the 31st BCS Police Cadre and posted to the Barishal Metropolitan Police. He was students of the 33rd batch of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology of Jahangirnagar University. His wife Sharmin Sultana is a strudent of the same university. The couple have a four-year-old son.
