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| Chargesheet in Sholakia blast case due next week |
| 2018-07-27 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Investigators are set to submit the charge-sheet, accusing five holy warriors, in the case over the suicidal kabooms near Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj in July, 2016 next week, reports BSS. "We have already prepared the charge-sheet in the case over the blasts near Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj. We hope to submit the charge-sheet before the court against five forces of Evil by July 31," Superintendent of Kishoreganj police Mashruqur Rahman Khaled said. When contacted, the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case and also Inspector (investigation) of Kishoreganj Sadar cop shoppe, Arifur Rahman said he will send a petition to the legal wing of the Home Ministry on Sunday seeking approval for the charge-sheet in the Sholakia blast case. He hoped that police will be able to submit the chargesheet before the court by Monday, if the ministry gives its nod soon after receiving it. "We have found involvement of 23 forces of Evil in the attack. But five of them will be accused in the charge-sheet as 18 others have been killed in different assaults of the law enforcers," he added. Of the accused, Rajib Gandhi Apparently not an alias. and Sohel Mahfuz gave confessional statements under section 164 before the court. Both Rajib and Sohel were included in the list of accused in the charge-sheet of Holey Artisan Cafe attack case. In his statement, Rajib Gandhi confessed that the New-JMB had taken preparations to carry out two large-scale kabooms (at Holey Artisan Cafe, at Gulshan in the capital and Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj) mainly to upset the government and attract the attention of international holy warrior organizations. Police in their investigation found that New-JMB front ranking leaders Tamim Chowdhury, Major Zahid, Akash, Abir and Don separately visited the place of occurrence one day (July 6, 2016) ahead of the attack on July 7, 2016, around a week after the Holey Artisan Cafe attack. Four people, including two coppers, a woman, and a suspected assailant, were killed in the attack. |
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