Attack on AL Meeting Venue
Sylhet court orders fresh investigation
A Sylhet court yesterday ordered fresh investigation into the case for grenade attack on the AL meeting venue on Gulshan Hotel premises in the city on August 7 in 2004.
Additional District and Sessions Judge-III Manzurul Haque Khan passed the order upon a petition filed by Public Prosecutor Mezbah Uddin Siraj, seeking fresh probe into the case.
Sylhet city AL publicity secretary Md Ibrahim was killed and at least 50 others were injured in the grenade attack. Mezbah, also the general secretary of AL Sylhet city unit, is one of the injured.
In his petition, Mezbah stated that CID did not include the name of the main perpetrator of the attack in the charge sheet submitted in 2008.
Although accused Huji activist Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul in his confessional statement in the court said former BNP lawmaker Ilyas Ali had asked him to launch the grenade, but the investigators did not try to identify the perpetrators and the supplier of the grenade, Mesbah stated in his prayer.
CID submitted charge sheet in the case in 2008, accusing Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, Mufti Hannan's brother Muhibullah alias Muhibur Rahman, Huji operatives Mufti Main Uddin alias Abu Zandal, Delwar Hossain Ripon, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Humayun Kabir Himu.
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