A Sylhet court yesterday placed Huji leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and his three accomplices on a 7-day remand in connection with the Shah AMS Kibria murder case.Habiganj Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Helal Uddin granted their 7-day remand after ASP of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Rafiqul Islam, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, prayed for their 10-day remand.
Mufti Hannan along with his brother Muhib Ullah alias Mofizur Rahman alias Ovi, 30, Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul, 38, and Hafez Syed Nayeem Ahmed alias Arif, 32, were produced before the court amid tight security.
The CID has been conducting a supplementary investigation into the killing of SAMS Kibria.
Sylhet district Awami League (AL) leader Advocate Abdul Mazid Khan filed a murder case and another under the explosives act after former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria and four others were killed in a grenade attack on an AL rally at Boidder Bazar in Habiganj on January 27, 2005.
Senior ASP of CID Munshi Atique, the then IO of the cases, submitted charge sheets of the cases to the court on March 20 the same year against 10 people including vice president of Habiganj district BNP Abdul Quaiyum.
Later, Atique sought permission for conducting further investigation before the Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal on March 7 this year.
ASP Rafiqul took charge of investigation after Atique went on retirement four months back.