Staff Correspondent:
Journalists of Cox’s Bazar working for local and national media organisations on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, demanding exemplary punishment to the police men who beat up a journalist on Monday.
Ahmed Gias, district Correspondent of daily Jai Jai Din and daily Azadi, was beaten in front of Cox’s Bazar BNP office on Monday afternoon when he was taking a photograph.
The deputy commissioner, Mohammaad Gias Uddin Ahmed, told journalists that the district police authorities had already suspended the accused police constable —- Mohammad Sohel — for beating the journalist.
The police also formed an inquiry committee headed by Hamidul Hoque, a senior assistant superintendent of the police.
The injured journalist, Gias was undergoing treatment at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital.
The journalists of the district town held a protest meeting presided over by president of Cox’s Bazar Press Club Badiul Alam at Cox’s Bazar Pourashava premises on Monday evening.