Kibria murder case Court orders fresh chargesheet

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UNB, Habiganj :
Trashing the chargewheet submitted by CID for the third time in the former Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case, a court here on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to submit the supplementary charge-sheet afresh with necessary corrections by December 21.
Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akhter passed the order as CID Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police and also the investigation officer of the case Meherunnesa filed a petition for accepting the charge-sheet after correcting the names of two accused.
On November 12, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted the supplementary charge-sheet against 35 people, including former State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s political secretary Harris Chowdhury and Sylhet City Corporation mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, in the murder case.
Senior Assistant Superintendent Meherunnesa Parul of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted the chargesheet incorporating the names of 11 more accused in the third supplementary chargesheet.
The IO had also prayed to the court for exempting the three accused Yusuf Bin Sharif, Abu Bakar Abdul Karim and Ahsan Ullah-from the previous chargesheet.
Those indicted afresh in the third chargesheet are Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Harris Chowdhury, Habiganj district BNP general secretary GK Gaus, Sheikh Tajuddin, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mohammad Ali, Badrul, Muhibur Rahman, Kajal and Hafez Yahiya.
Five people, including former Finance Minister Kibria, were killed and 70 others injured in a grenade attack on a public meeting of local Awami League at Baidder Bazar in Sadar upazila on January 27, 2005.
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