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Kibria’s widow files objection to supplementary charge sheet

Asma Kibria, widow of former finance minister SAMS Kibria, on Tuesday filed an objection with a Habiganj court to the supplementary charge sheet in the Kibria murder case.

Alamgir Kabir Bhuiyan, counsel for Asma Kibria, filed the objection with the court of senior judicial magistrate Rajib Kumar Biswas, saying that the names of the masterminds of the killing have not been included in the supplementary charge sheet.

The supplementary charge sheet was submitted on June 20 against 14 people, including former BNP state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami chief Muft Hannan.

Former minister Kibria and four others were killed in a grenade attack at Baidyer Bazar in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. More than 70 people were also wounded in the attack.

Quoting the statements of

witnesses, including Major General Sadek Hassan Rumi, and the arrested such as Babar, the objection appeal said that although the Harkatul men had carried out the attack with the help of former ministers and leaders of the BNP-led alliance, the names of the influential masterminds were not there in the charge sheet.

The court heard the objection and after hearing, Rajib Kumar ordered that as the main documents were not with the court, this application should be sent to the she speedy trial court in Sylhet.

Source : New Age