Two Years After The Brutal Incident
Little progress in CBA leader Abu Taher murder case
JUSTICE DELAYED: Two years over, the law enforcers are yet to make any headway in the killing of Abu Taher, president of CBA of a state-run gas company. Star File Photo
Law enforcers have failed to submit charge sheet in the case for killing Abu Taher, president of CBA of state-run Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd, even after two years of the incident. The sensational case was transferred to the Detective Branch first and then to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) but the investigators could not proceed much in fixing the charges due to alleged interference by some ruling party backed men, sources said. Abu Taher, senior technician of the company, along with Fazlul Bari Didar, joint assistant secretary of the CBA, came out from their official quarters at Rainagar in Sylhet city and started for office on Taher's motorbike on June 10 of 2010. As they reached near the Roads and Highways Department office after a few minutes, two young men on a motorbike waylaid them and hit Taher, making him fall on the ground. Then one of the attackers slit Taher's throat, Didar told the newsmen and the police that day. Taher was rushed to Osmani Medical College Hospital, where the doctors declared him dead. Talking to the newsmen shortly after the killing, Taher's wife and daughter hinted that a few people of the CBA might be involved with the murder as Taher did not agree with some wrongdoings in the office and the CBA. Things were clear from telephonic conversations days before the killing, they said. But, now they do not want to talk over the gruesome incident. "We do not want to tell anything about the murder, let Allah see everything," Taher's wife Afroza said a couple of days ago. Just after the incident, police got some clues to the murder, but they fell in great trouble due to pressure from some ruling party men, sources claimed. Contacted, senior assistant superintendent of police of CID, Sylhet, Meherunnesa Parul, who is supervising the case, told this correspondent on Wednesday, "The two-year-old complicated case was referred to the CID six months ago. The investigation is on and it would take time to complete the task." The investigation officer of the case, CID Inspector Shamimur Rashid Pir told this correspondent, "All the four arrestees in this connection are on bail. Progress of investigation is not much and it is not possible to ascertain when the charge sheet would be filed." CBA election related feuds between groups might have led to the killing, sources said referring to the probe findings.
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