Bogura BNP leader killing: police press charges against 14
Police have submitted charge sheet against 14 accused including a panel mayor of Bogura Municipality in a case filed over the murder of Mahbub Alam Shahin, a local BNP leader, in 2019.
Inspector Amber Hossain, investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet on Saturday evening to Bogura Court Inspector Abul Kalam Azad accusing 14 persons including the mastermind Aminul Islam, the panel mayor and also a former vice president of Bogura Sadar upazila unit Jubo League, reports our local correspondent.
Aminul Islam, also the general secretary of Bogura District Motor Owners’ Association and managing director of Shah Fateh Ali Paribahan, was the mastermind of the murder, said the investigation officer.
Aminul earlier got bail from the High Court in the case following his arrest.
Among the other accused, four were arrested and nine others are absconding, the police official also said.
The four arrested accused confessed to their involvement in the murder and given statements before the court. During the investigation, police found involvement of 9 and included their names in the charge sheet, Inspector Amber also said.
According the confessional statements of the four accused given to the court under Section 164, Shahin was murdered over a feud involving his transport business, the investigation officer said.
Police left one other named accused not involved in the killing and did not include him in the charge sheet, Amber said.
On April 14 last year, Shahin, a lawyer and transport businessmen, was attacked by these accused with sharp weapons at Upashahar Bazar area of Bogura town and later died on that day at a hospital.
Later, on April 19, his wife Akter Jahan filed a murder case with Bogura Sadar Police Station accusing 11 persons in this connection.
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