Supplementary Charge Sheet in Kibria Killing Case
Hearing on <i>naraji</i> petition to take place on Oct 25
Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday fixed October 25 for hearing on the naraji (objection) petition filed against the supplementary charge sheet in former finance minister SAMS Kibria killing case. Judge Dilip Kumar Debnath set the date following a petition submitted to the court by Special Public Prosecutor Ashok Kumar Kar, seeking extension of time. Lawyer Alamgir Bhuiyan Babul filed the 'naraji' petition on behalf of Asma Kibria, wife of the slain former finance minister, terming the supplementary charge sheet incomplete and flawed. In the supplementary charge sheet, the CID had dropped the names of the main accused and the masterminds behind the killing, Asma alleged in the petition and demanded fresh probe into the incident. The SPP told this correspondent yesterday that CID submitted the supplementary charge sheet to Habiganj Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court on 20 June this year, accusing 14 people. The charge-sheeted accused are former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, Indian national Md Abdul Aziz Butt alias Abdul Mazed Butt, Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal, Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Muhibullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Hafez Syed Nayeem Ahmed Arif, Md Badrul Alam Mizan, Mizanur Rahman alias Mithu Maulana Taj Uddin, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mohammad Ali and Mohammad Badrul alias Badrul. Nine of them are now in jail while the rest--Maulana Taj Uddin, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mohammad Ali and Mohammad Badrul alias Badrul--are still at large. Former Finance minister SAMS Kibria, his nephew advocate Shah Manjurul Huda, local AL leaders Abdur Rahim, Abul Hossain and Siddique Ali were killed in a grenade attack on a public meeting at Baidderbazar under Habiganj Sadar upazila on the night of January 27 in 2005. The then senior ASP of CID Munshi Atiquur Rahman (now in jail in Ctg arms haul case) filed charge sheet in the case on March 20 in 2005 against 10 accused who were found innocent in the further investigation conducted by another senior ASP Md Rafiqul Islam.
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