Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued warrant of arrest against fugitive and sacked Major Syed Md Ziaul Haque in the case filed in connection with the murder of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.
Magistrate Mohammad Jasim of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order.
General Register Officer (GRO) SI Md Yusuf Ali Khan of Khilgaon Thana in the CMM Court told the media people about this warrant. Earlier, the court accepted the charge-sheet of the case and issued the warrant order. The court fixed November 9 for compliance of the order.
On September 30, Detective Branch Ramna Zonal Team Investigation Officer submitted the charge-sheet in the CMM Court. Zia was shown fugitive in the charge-sheet.
All suspects are members of the banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam and also known as Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). Zia, the military wing commander of the outfit, is considered to be the mastermind of the incident. He planned the murder that was executed on August 7, 2015, the IO earlier said. They gave the charge-sheet after five-year long investigation.
The other accused people are, top ABT operatives Khairul Islam alias Fahim alias Jishan, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Abu Siddiq Sohel and Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon, activists Masud Rana, Saad Al Nahiyan,Tarikul Islam, Kamal Hossain Sardar, Kawsar Hossain Khan, Mortuja Faisal Sabbir, Arafat Rahman Siam and Mufti Abdul Gaffar.
Earlier, of the thirteen, twelve were arrested from different places across the country at different times. Khairul, Arafat, Abdullah, Sohel and Saimon are now in the jail while the remaining accused are on bail.
During the investigation, Khairul, Sohel and Abdullah gave confessional statements in magistrate courts on different dates. According to their confessional statements, it was learned that Masud Rana, Siam and Saimon took part in the killing as per direction of Zia.
Md Akhtaruzzaman, an inspector of Counter Terrorism & Transnational Crime of DMP and Investigation Officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.
On August 7, 2015, blogger Niloy was hacked to death by a group of assailants at his rented flat on the 4th floor of a multi-storey building in Goran. Later, the victim’s wife Asha Moni filed the murder case with Khilgaon Police Station against four miscreants.
