Supplementary charge-sheet submitted

Habiganj, June 20 (bdnews24.com)?A supplementary charge-sheet has been submitted in the Shah A M S Kibria murder case against 14 people, including ex-BNP state minister Lutfozzaman Babar.

The charge-sheet was submitted to Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court around 10:30am on completion of further investigation, CID senior ASP and investigation officer Mohammad Rafiqul Islam told bdnews24.com.

He said the hearing on the charge-sheet would be held on June 24 at Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal.

Former finance minister Kibria and four others were killed in a grenade attack in Habiganj on Jan 27, 2005. Over 70 people were also injured in the gruesome attack.

Abdul Majid Khan, then the general secretary of Awami League's district unit and currently an MP, filed two cases over the incident.

On Mar 10, 2005, then senior ASP of CID Munshi Atiqur Rahman submitted a charge sheet naming 10 people.

The High Court ordered further investigation into the murder case when the caretaker government was in office.

Babar, currently serving 17 years behind bars in an arms case, was also shown arrested in connection with the Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally when he was the junior minister.

The case had been languishing for three years when it was taken up for further investigation as per directives of the High Court to find out the mastermind behind the grenade attack. Six accused are now detained in jail, including HuJI leader Mufti Hannan.

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