A Dhaka court has admitted a case accusing six anchors of Islamic shows aired on radio and private TV stations of involvement in the murder of Nurul Islam Farooqi. The Islami Front (IF) leader and TV show host was found murdered in his own home in Dhaka on Aug 27. He used to host two programmes – ‘Shantir Pothe’ and ‘Kafela’ – on Channel i. His party, IF, is known to oppose the Jamaat-e-Islami and Hifazat-e Islam. A leader of the IF’s student affiliate, Islami Chhatra Sena, moved the Court of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on Thursday, accusing six other Islamic show anchors. They are NTV host Tarek Munawar, ATN Bangla hosts Arakanullah Haruni and Kamaluddin Zafrey, RTV and Radio Today host Khalid Saifullah Bakshi, Diganta TV anchor Kazi Ibrahim, and Bangla Vision’s Mokhtar Ahmed. The case filed by Chhatra Sena’s Dhaka unit Secretary Imran Hossain Tushar says the six were the masterminds behind Farooqi’s murder. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur admitted the complaint as a case and directed that it be attached to the case filed by Farooqi’s family. It ordered a joint investigation into the cases. In a media briefing on Wednesday, Farooqi’s family requested police to add two more charges – murder and a conspiracy to commit the crime – in the case the family had filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police. Chhatra Sena leader Tushar also pleaded with the court on Thursday to include the same charges in the case. He further urged the court to add two more charges – incitement to commit a crime and the concealing of evidence. Tushar said at the hearing that police prepared the case details and the victim’s youngest son Faisal Farooqi signed the relevant paper in ‘a state of shock’. According to him, the family is being threatened not to come to the court, which led him to file the petition. –bdnews24.com
