Court orders seizure of 3 fugitives' properties

A Habiganj court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate all the movable properties of three fugitive accused in a case for killing four school kids in Bahubal upazila of the district on February 12.

They are Babul Mia, Ustar Mia and Billal Mia, of Sundrateki village in the upazila.

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Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Masruza Parveen passed the order yesterday afternoon.

The court also fixed August 7 for the next hearing of the case, Public Prosecutor Trilok Kanti Chowdhury said.

On June 28, a Habiganj court accepted the charges against nine people, including the three absconding accused.

The six other accused are Abdul Ali, his two sons Rubel Mia, and Jewel Mia, and Habibur Rahman Arju, Shahed Ahmed Bashir, and Bachchu Mia, of the same village.

Of them, Bachchu was killed in a "gunfight" with the Rapid Action Battalion in Chunarughat upazila of the district on February 25.

Detectives on April 5 pressed charges against the nine people in the case.

Four schoolboys--Monir Mia, 7, Zakaria Shuvo, 8, Tajel Mia, 10, and Ismail Mia, 10 --were the victims of enmity between two groups in local Panchayat (village arbitration council), according to the charge sheet submitted to the court.