The Case of Abdul Kadar: illegal arms. He was tortured brutally in police custody. According to a witness' deposition, the officer-in-charge (OC) of Khilgaon Police Station, Helal Uddin, was apparently unsound and intoxicated when he injured Kadar's left thigh with a cleaver. On July 28, the bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain in a suo moto rule directed the law secretary and the IGP to conduct separate investigations into the incident. OC Helal Uddin, Sub-inspector Alam Badsha, and Assistant Sub-inspector Shahidur Rahman were closed on July 29 in line with the same order. Kadar was released on bail on August 3. Ashish Ranjan Das, secretary (in-charge) to the law ministry, who conducted the judicial investigation, found that Kadar had been arrested and tortured in police custody on false allegations by a miscreant. The cases against Kadar were filed erratically, without any enquiry or taking his statement, the judicial probe report said, adding that police exhibited extreme negligence and an unjust attitude in accusing a person on this particular occasion. He recommended termination of the services of Khilgaon OC Helal Uddin over the latter's inflicting torture on Kadar in custody. He also suggested some remedies to prevent repetition of such incidents. The suggestions include strict directives from police high-ups to personnel about focusing on primary evidence before accusing a person, not to torture a suspect and so uphold the country's law and court directives, making sure that a case is framed based64 on facts and that the accused was really involved in the allegations brought against him. Source: Series reports of the Prothom-Alo and the Daily Star 64 46 Section 82 of the proposed Ordinance 2007.