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2011-06-21 Bangladesh
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Babar, Hannan charged with Kibria killing
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 [Bangla Daily Star] Police on Monday pressed charges against 24 persons including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJI)
Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west.
leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case.
Of the 24, 14 have been found to be involved in the gruesome liquidation in the fresh investigation.
They were spared in the previous probe conducted during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government regime, Rafiqul Islam, an additional superintendent of police and investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star Monday. Though charges against the rest 10 could not be proved, their names were included in the charge sheet as those came up in a previous one, the IO added.
The charge sheet was ready for submission on May 25. But the Sherlocks deferred the submission due to Kibria's wife Asma Kibria's allegation that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police had spared the real culprits and criminal mastermind of the gruesome murder. Asked what changes came in the charge sheet he submitted Monday, the IO replied: "Nothing."
"I readied it a month ago. But the bigwigs took more time for a final check. Finding no mistake or flaw, they kept it unchanged and asked me to go ahead with it," Rafiqul Islam told the Daily Star. Rafiqul submitted the charge sheet before the court of Habjganj Judicial Magistrate Rajib Kumar Biswas.
Kibria, also a former Awami League politician from Habiganj, was killed in a grenade attack on a rally at Baidyer Bazar in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. His nephew Shah Manzur Huda, local AL leader Abdur Rahim, Abul Hossain and Siddique Ali were also killed in the attack.
CID official Rafiqul was tasked with a 'further investigation' into the grisly liquidation on May 6, 2007 weeks before the then Investigation officer, CID's SP Munshi Atiqur Rahman went on retirement.
Six years into the murder, the Sherlocks found Babar's involvement in the plot executed by hard boys, officials said.
Babar arranged sending abroad Moulana Tajuddin, an accused in the murder who is also the brother of former state minister Abdus Salam Pintu, using a fake name days after HuJI kingpin Mufti Hannan was nabbed by the law enforcers on October 1, 2005, the investigator said. An influential minister on the then government, Babar is now in jail in connection with several graft charges.
Rafiqul said banned hard boy organization HuJI was behind the attack.
"The killers were determined to carry out the liquidation as part of a plan to eliminate the AL leadership on the pretext that it was a pro-Indian political party," the IO said. The killers held several secret meetings in the capital and in Habiganj before embarking on the killing mission, he added.
Badrul Alam Mizan was caught from Habiganj town on a tip-off by Mufti Hannan on October 1, 2006, the IO said. Mizan also confessed that he had joined the attack on instruction from Mufti Hannan.
Apart from Babar, the 14 include HuJI kingpin Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Muhibbullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi, Moulana Tajuddin, Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal and Indian national Abdul Aziz Butt alias Abdul Majed Butt. The others are HuJI operatives Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Hafez Syed Nayeem Ahmed Arif, Badrul Alam Mizan, Mizanur Rahman alias Mizan, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hye, Mohammad Ali and Badrul Alam Badrul.
The killers were determined for killing the man under a plan to eliminate the AL, as it was a pro-Indian political party, the IO said, they held several secret meetings in the capital as well as in Habiganj before finishing the mission, he added.
On the 10 accused in the previous charge sheet, Rafiqul Islam told The Daily Star: "We did not find any evidence for the allegations brought against them. Now the trial court would look into the matter."
BACKGROUND
After the killing incident, Habiganj district AL organising secretary Abdul Mazid Khan (now a politician) filed two cases in this connection -- one for killing and the other for explosive substances -- with Habiganj Sadar Police Station the following day. The home ministry assigned CID's Munshi Atiqur Rahman as the IO of the two cases.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
a government formed a high-powered committee formed to probe the incident submitted its report in April 2005 accusing 10 people of Habiganj including some local BNP leaders and grassroots activists.
They are: district BNP Vice-president Abdul Quaiyum, Juba Dal leader Zainal Abedin Jalal, Zamir Ali, Tajul Islam, Zainal Abedin Mumin, Shahed Ali, Selim Ahmed, Ayat Ali, Muhibur Rahman and Kajol Miah. In his charge sheet submitted on March 10 the same year, the IO also accused the same 10 and his report was identical to that of the probe committee.
Receiving charge sheet, Sylhet divisional Speedy trial Tribunal Judge Biplab Goswami started trial through framing charges against 10 accused. But following appeal by the complainant, the High Court stayed the proceedings.
The complainant of the cases and Kibria family repeatedly expressed their 'no confidence' over the investigation and asked for further investigation.
Further investigation was during the 2007-2008 caretaker government regime following a court order.
All the 10 got release on bail during the army-backed caretaker government rule. One of them died that time. 
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