Grenade attack: reports on July 3

Dhaka, June 22 (bdnews24.com) ? The investigation officer of the Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack cases has got 10 days more to submit reports as some government officials need to be implicated.

Dhaka's second additional metropolitan sessions judge Begum Chaman Chowdhury on Wednesday set July 3 for submitting the further probe reports.

While presenting the time-extension petition, special police superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department Abdul Kahhar Akand said the charge-sheets were ready for submission.

"But it needs to take permission from the authorities concerned since several names of high government officials will be incorporated," he said.

Akhand, however, declined to disclose the names before submitting the reports.

The grisly grenade attack on an Awami League meeting at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka left 24 people, including incumbent president Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, dead and 73 injured.

A case was filed with Motijheel Police Station, and later two separate charge-sheets were submitted against 22 people, including BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) leader Mufti Hannan, for murder, attempted murder and carrying of explosives illegally.

Al-Markazul leader Maulana Abdur Rashid and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed are among those being quizzed in the cases.

Akhand said last month that former prime minister Khaleda Zia's political advisor Haris Chowdhury had links with the attack and that he would be implicated.

BNP claims the government is trying to insert the name of Khaleda's elder son Tarique Rahman in the cases.

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