The chief metropolitan magistrate's court in Dhaka on Wednesday sent three former investigation officers of the August 21 grenade attack case to the jail after they had surrendered in connection with the case.
The metropolitan sessions judge's curt posted for July 17 the hearing in charges in another case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
In the attack on an Awami League rally in August 2004, 24 people, including Mahila Awami League president Ivy Rahman were killed and scores, including Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, now the prime minister, were wounded.
Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury sent the three investigation officers of the case — former CID special superintendent Md Ruhul Amin and former assistant superintendents Abdur Rashid and Munshi Atiqur Rahman — to jail after rejecting prayers for their bail in the killing case in which the court on Sunday issued warrants for the arrest of them and 15 others.
Judge Mohammad Md Zahurul Haque posted the hearing in charges of the explosive substances case as the chief metropolitan magistrate, AKM Enamul Haque, had sent to the court the charge sheet of the case for trial.
The Criminal Investigation Department on Sunday submitted two supplementary charge sheets pressing charges against 30 more people, including Tarique Rahman, also the BNP's senior vice-chairman, the detained Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, former prime minister's political adviser Haris Chowdhury, current BNP lawmaker Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad, four retired army officers and eight former police officers in both the cases relating to the grenade attack.
Keshab Roy on Sunday also issued warrants for the arrests of the 18, including Tarique Rahman, out of the 30 accused, shown absconding in the charge sheet of the killing case.
The chief metropolitan magistrate kept the charge sheet in the explosive substances case to complete some procedures before sending it to the trial court.
With the latest surrender in the connection with the killing case, the numbers of police officers sent to jail on surrender increased to six.
On Monday the same court sent three former inspectors general of the police — M Asharaful Huda, Shahudul Haque and Khodabaksh Chowdhury — to jail after they had surrendered.
The police, however, failed to arrest the rest 12 people shown absconding in the case.
Seeking bails for Ruhul Amin, Abdur Rashid and Munshi Atiqur, their counsel Abdus Sobhan Tarafdar argued that the three could not be implicated in the grenade attack cases as they were facing a specific case on charge of diverting the investigations and destroying crimes evidence. In the case, which is now under investigation, the three were granted bail, the lawyer added.
Source : New Age
