Chargesheet against AL leader, 7 BNP men

The district AL brought out a procession protesting the charge sheet and district AL general secretary Advocate Hanif Ali Sheikh told newsmen that the charge sheet was 'prescribed' by the ruling BNP.

"It is designed to save the real culprits," said the AL leader, putting the blame for the murder once again on State Minister for Youth and Sports Fazlur Rahman Patal.

It has been mentioned in the charge sheet, submitted 57 days after the killing, that AL leader Anisur Rahman hired a group of seven killers in exchange of Tk 2 lakh for murdering Mamtaz.

The seven accused in the charge sheet are Arif, Shukur Babu, Alam, Shameem, Faruk, Babar Ali Babu and Santu. All the seven are workers of local BNP.

The charge sheet said Anisur Rahman, a Dhaka-based industrialist, developed enmity with Mamtaz Uddin after he failed to get nomination from the Lalpur-Bagatipara constituency during the last parliamentary polls.

The charge sheet was placed before a first class magistrate yesterday after CID Inspector Shahidullah Sheikh submitted it on Sunday night.

Shahidullah Sheikh was heavily criticised for the ' controversial' charge sheet of Purnima rape case in Sirajganj just after the October 2001 elections.

Of the accused, Anisur Rahman got ad-interim bail from the High Court, Arif was arrested soon after the murder and Babar Ali Babu and Faruk were arrested during investigation.

Mamtaz Uddin, a freedom fighter, former AL lawmaker and district vice president, was murdered at Darapara in Lalpur upazila on June 6.