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| Five JMB men charged with attack on Prof Humayun Azad |
| 2007-11-16 |
| The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against five JMB men including executed militant leaders Shaekh Abdur Rahman and his brother Abdur Rahman Sunny in a case for assaulting late litterateur Prof Humayun Azad. CID Inspector Kazi Abdul Malek, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court against them showing 49 people as prosecution witnesses. However, the names of Abdur Rahman and Sunny, the masterminds of the attack on Prof Azad, were dropped from the charge sheet as they had already been convicted of killing two Jhalakathi judges and put to death. The other accused are Mizanur Rahman Minhaz, Nur Mohammad Shamim and Nur Alam alias Anwar Hossain Shahid. Minhaz is now behind bars while two others are on the run. The IO prayed for issuance of arrest warrants against Shamim and Shahid and order to attach their properties. In a confessional statement on June 3, detained JMB member Minhaz admitted to his direct involvement in the assault on Prof Azad. He said the plan was finalised at Abdur Rahman's Goran residence where Sunny was given the responsibility to execute it. Minhaz along with Shamim and Shahid took position on Bangla Academy premises and attacked Prof Azad in front of Atomic Energy Commission at about 8:15pm on February 27, 2004. After Prof Azad's novel 'Pak Sar Zamin Saad Baad ' was published in a national daily, Abdur Rahman ordered his men to kill the writer, the IO added. Prof Azad died in Germany on August 11, 2004. |
| Posted by:Fred |