Khulna cop withdrawn after ‘controversial’ remarks

Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operations) Mohammad Rashidul Islam Khan has been withdrawn from his post days after making “controversial” comments.

He was attached to police headquarters, according to an order signed by Additional Deputy Inspector General (Establishment) Raihan Uddin Khan on Saturday.

The decision comes five days after the additional commissioner made the remarks during a discussion, which later went viral on social media. Rashidul was speaking at a meeting with locals of Mohirbari Khalpar under Labanchara Police Station in Khulna recently.

In the video, Rashidul was heard saying that if details of whistleblowers or informants were leaked, then he would have those officers (who leaked the information) hung and beaten up.