Court accepts charge sheet against 7

The court has also issued warrants of arrest against two absconding accused and exempted two others from the case.

JCD vice-president Wahiduzzaman was hacked to death in a house at West Baniakhar on October 18, 1998. His body was recovered from Nijkhamar area near Khulna University the next day.

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Badrun Bibi, mother of slain JCD leader, filed a FIR with Khulna thana. The investigation officer of the case submitted charge sheet accusing seven people of the murder on April 12, 2001.

But the complainant filed a naraji petition against the charge sheet on May 25, 2001. Later, the complainant disowned the naraji petition submitted by her lawyer.

The seven accused are Ekhlas, Advocate Akhter Zahan Ruku, Moin Zamaddar, Imtiaz Ali, Rawshan Jamil Mithu, Abdur Razzak and Zahidul Islam.

The court has issued warrants of arrest against Abdur Razzak and Zahidul Islam and exempted Nadim Hossain and Azizul Karim from the charge.

Azizul Karim and Nadim Hossain who were released on bail on June 9, 1999 gave their statement before the court describing how the JCD leader was called out from the BNP office and confined in a house where he was murdered.

Two accused -- Moin Zamaddar and Abdul Aziz -- are armed cadres of an outlawed organisation, sources said.

Police suspected that the killing of Chanchal was a sequel to intra-party feud.