Habiganj 4-kid murder: Property of fugitives attached

Police today attached all movable properties of the three fugitives accused in a case for murdering four school kids in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj on February 12.

Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Masruza Parveen passed the attach order on July 25 for fugitives Babul Mia, Ustar Mia and Billal Mia.

A police team led by Officer-In-Charge of Bahubal Police station Molla Monir Hossain conducted the operation to attach the properties of the absconding this morning.

Four schoolboys--Monir Mia, 7, Zakaria Shuvo, 8, Tajel Mia, 10, and Ismail Mia, 10 –were killed on February 12 over the enmity between two groups in local Panchayat (village arbitration council), according to the charge sheet submitted to the court.

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.