The police Monday submitted a supplementary charge sheet against 14 people including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Afghan war veteran Mufti Abdul Hannan in the 2005 murder case of former finance minister SAMS Kibria.
Investigation officer of CID ASP Rafiqul Islam submitted the charge sheet in the court of senior judicial magistrate Rajib Kumer Biswas. He said he was scheduled to submit the charge sheet on May 25 but it was delayed for scrutiny by the higher authority following objection raised by the family members of Kibria. Nine of those included in the supplementary charge sheet already in custody are Lutfuzzaman Babar, Mufti Abdul Hannan and his brother Muhibbullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi, Maulana Tajuddin, Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zindal and Pakistani national Abdul Aziz Butt alias Abdul Majed Butt, Shaheed Shahedul Alam Bipul, Mizanur Rahman Mithu and Syed Nayem Ahmed.
Five others absconding are Badrul Alam Mizan, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hye, Mohammad Ali and Badrul.
Earlier investigation officer had submitted charge sheet against 10 persons. Fresh investigation did not find their involvement in the murder of Kibria who died in a grenade attack at Baidyer Bazar in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. But their names were not yet dropped from the list of accused because of legal binding.
Hearing on the charge sheet will start on June 24 in the speedy trial tribunal court in Sylhet.
Source : New Age
