N'ganj 7-murder: HC ruling over plea for more probe Dec 9

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bdnews24.com :The High Court will give a ruling on Wednesday on a petition for further investigation in a case filed over the sensational Narayanganj seven murders.Selina Islam Beauty, the widow of slain Narayanganj City Corporation councillor Nazrul Islam, moved the court last month. The bench of justices M Enayetur Rahim and Amir Hossain heard submissions on Sunday.Beauty had filed the petition after a Narayanganj court rejected her objection to the chargesheet which police submitted in April, nearly one year after the murders.The court last week in an observation said the chargesheet filed in the case contained ‘flaws’, something plaintiff Beauty has all along claimed. Although it pointed to shortcomings in the chargesheet, the court stressed that the case must not be allowed to drag on, on the pretext of further investigation.It also asked both sides to present their arguments during Sunday’s hearing on the scope for more investigation given that the chargesheet had been filed.In April 2014, Nazrul Islam and his four associates along with senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar and his driver were abducted and killed. Beauty had started the case accusing another councillor Nur Hossain and six others.Nazrul’s family also alleged that several RAB officers, too, were involved in the murders.Police on April 8 this year submitted the chargesheet in court, accusing 35 people, including Hossain and the dismissed RAB officers. But they dropped the names of five people named in the initial complaint, prompting Beauty to object it in court. But her objection was dismissed. Then, on Nov 23, she moved the High Court against the trial court ruling.

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