Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court will decide on February 8 whether it will accept the probe report submitted by police clearing Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, from an arms case.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Special Tribunal-1 of Dhaka set the date. Meanwhile, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate is yet to transfer the narcotics case, filed against Erfan, to the Sessions court for the next course of action.
Earlier on January 5, Chawkbazar police submitted the probe reports of arms and drug cases to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.
Erfan was arrested after a case was filed against him on charge of “attacking” Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy in the capital’s Dhanmondi area on October 25 last year.
RAB conducted a drive at Haji Salim’s house on Debidash Lane in Old Dhaka the next day.
After the raid on October 26, RAB officials said they recovered two unlicensed firearms raiding the fourth and fifth floors of Erfan’s nine-storey building in Chawkbazar. They also recovered 38 walkie-talkies, five virtual private servers (VPS), and a briefcase which contained handcuffs.
