Trial of Darbar looting case starts after 6 yrs

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Chittagong Bureau :
The trial of sensational case of money looting from Talshar Darbar Sharif of Anwara upazila, Chittagong started from Tuesday by framing the charge against the accused of the case. However, the judicial procedure has started again after around six years of the incidence on September 4, in 2011.
The hearing of the case of Talshar Darbar Sharif started before the court of Fifth Additional District and Session Judge of Chittagong Nur -e-Alam. The court of the Fifth Additional District and Session Judge of Chittagong Nur -e- Alam framed charge against the accused.
However, on April 6 this year, District and Session Judge of Chittagong Helal Uddin Chowdhury directed to send the case before the court of Nur-e- Alam. As per directives of the court, the case of Talshar Darbar Sharif at Anwara started before the court of Fifth Additional District and Session Judge.
Sources said, a team of robbers introduced themselves as member of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) looted Tk 2 crore of Talshar Darbar Sharif at Anwara in Chittagong on September 4 in 2011. At that time, RAB claimed that the team of RAB seized the money of Hundi from a Darbar at Anwara. But, the RAB team did not file any case in this connection and the team also did not deposit the seized money to the government treasury.
According to sources, on March 13 that year, a robbery case was filed against 12 persons including former chief of RAB-7 Lieutenant Colonel Zulfikar Ali Mojumdar along with 9 other RAB members and two sources for looting Tk 2 crore cash from a shrine named Talsara Darbar at Anwara upazila in Chittagong.  
Mohammad Ibrahim, driver of the shrine, filed the case with Anwara police station after getting a nod from the Investigation Committee formed by RAB to try the case under existing criminal procedure.
The accused persons were identified as members of RAB-7 Lieu-tenant Colonel Zulfikar Ali Mojumdar, Flight Lieu-tenant Sheik Mahmudul Hassan, Subedar Abul Kashem, SI Tarun Kumar Basu, Nayek Jahangir Hossen, Lance Nayek Liton Miah, Nayek Suman Chandra Dey, Ali Ashraf, Lance Corporal Jashim Uddin, ASI Hasanuzzaman and two sources Didarul Alam and Anwar Miah.

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