Property of fugitives attached

Police yesterday attached all movable properties of the three fugitives -- Babul Mia, Ustar Mia and Billal Mia -- accused in a case for murdering four school kids in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj on February 12.

Judge Masruza Parveen of Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal passed the order on July 25.

A police team led by Molla Monir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bahubal Police Station, conducted the operation.

Four schoolboys -- Monir Mia, 7, Zakaria Shuvo, 8, Tajel Mia, 10, and Ismail Mia, 10 --were killed on February 12 over enmity between two groups in a 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.