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| Charge-framing against Huji men Aug 30 |
| 2009-08-10 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Sylhet District and Sessions Judge Md Momin Ullah yesterday fixed August 30 for framing charges against the accused Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (Huji) chief and his men for December 2005 grenade attack on the city mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran. Police produced the Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and four of his accomplices before the court yesterday, but failed to produce the other accused--Humayun Kabir Himu as he was still at large. The judge fixed the date as the prosecution lawyers urged for charge framing against them. The judge also ordered for publishing court notification with the new date in the newspapers declaring Himu absconding. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted charge sheet on November 6 last year against six Huji men for the grenade attack. Investigation officer (IO) of the case Inspector Shamim Ur Rashid Pir of CID filed the charge sheet with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court of Sylhet acquitting seven in the case (dropping seven of them). The six charge-sheeted accused in the case are Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Muhibullah alias Mofizul Islam alias Ovi, Mufti Main Uddin alias Abu Zandal, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Delwar Hossain Ripon and Humayun Kabir Himu. The people who were dropped from the charge sheet are Fokhrul Islam Fahim, Badol Miah, Kabir Hossain, Abdul Quaiyum, Badrul Alam Mizan, Hafij Nayeem Ahmed Arif and Ahsan Ullah Kajol. Meantime, Kajol had died. All the charge sheeted had been in the jail hajat except Himu. Another accused Fakhrul Islam Fahim was not charged since his whereabouts could not be ascertained, the IO mentioned in the charge sheet. He said on receiving information about his whereabouts Fahim would be charged through a supplementary charge sheet. On December 2, 2005, criminals hurled a grenade at the mayor around 10:00pm as he was inaugurating a badminton tournament in Sylhet's Tilagarh area. The grenade fell five feet short of the mayor and failed to explode. |
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