caused a public outcry and got huge media coverage. As a result of wide publicity of the death of Shamim, there was an investigation. There was a post-mortem and after investigation, charges were brought against the accused persons under section 302 of the Penal Code. It was found that AC Akram, an officer of the Detective Branch, in association with some other officers, brutally tortured the victim, which caused his death. After the trial, the accused was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life. The High Court Division also provided interpretation of several provisions of the Cr. P. C. relating to arrest and detention and issued some guidelines. The court held that the word ‘concerned’ is a vague word, which gives unhindered power to a police officer to arrest any person. The Court observed that in order to safeguard the life and liberty and to limit the power of the police, the word ‘concerned’ is to be substituted by any other appropriate word. The Court developed a list of guidelines on the use of arrest and detention that are discussed later. In ASK (Ain 0 Salish Kendra) vs. Bangladesh and others11, the unlawful detention of the prisoners languishing in Dhaka Central Jail, despite having served out their terms of conviction, was challenged. According to law, after pronouncing conviction, the court will send the conviction warrant to the jail authority. But due to negligence of court staff and jail authorities, the said conviction warrants did not reach the jail and many prisoners could not be released from 11 28 57 DLR (HCD)