Shibir files murder case against JCD in Kushtia shootout

Torikul Islam, vice-president, Kushtia town unit of ICS, filed a case accusing 41 JCD men including Kushtia district unit JCD President Abdul Muyeed Babul, General Secretary Kamal Uddin and Polytechnic GS Towfiq Hasan Siddique.

Kushtia Polytechnic Institute Principal Abdul Gafur filed another case without accusing anyone.

District Jamaat-e-Islami at a press conference yesterday accused JCD cadres of killing the activist of ICS, Jamaat's student wing, and demanded immediate arrest of the killers.

None were arrested till yesterday but police are looking for the suspects, said Abdus Salam, police superintendent of Kushtia while talking to The Daily Star.

But at another press conference at Kushtia Reporters Unity, Kushtia district JCD claimed that the police gunned down the ICS activist.

Two platoons of police and BDR have been deployed on the polytechnic institute campus.

Kushtia district BNP has demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident.