Bagerhat Case Against 'War Criminals'
Complainant drops names of 34 out of 36 accused
Complainant through an affidavit has dropped the names of 34 out of 36 alleged war criminals from a petition case she filed with a Bagerhat case on January 4.
Khadija Begum, wife of martyred freedom fighter Ismail Hossain of Rajapur village under Sharankhola upazila, filed the petition case with Bagerhat Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court, accusing 36 people of killing her husband during Liberation War in 1971.
The petition case was recorded as a regular case with Sharankhola Police Station on January 16.
Khadija appeared before the court on January 17 and submitted an affidavit, dropping the names of 34 out of 36 accused. She, however, included the names of two other people in her supplementary case.
Nayeb-e- Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Maulana AKM Yusuf and ex-BNP lawmaker Dr Mian Abbasuddin are among the 34 whose names have been dropped from the petition case.
Now the four accused of the supplementary case are Matiar Rahman Talukder, 70, of Rayenda Bazar, Abdul Hamid Farazi, 70, of Paschimpara village, Rafez Pahlan, 75, of the same village and Abdul Khaleque, 70, of Khada village under Sharankhola upazila.
Khadija in the affidavit stated that the names of 34 people were included wrongly in her first petition case. “They were not at all involved in the murder of my husband Ismail Hossain,” she said.
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