Probe filing date rescheduled in murder case on Khaleda

After police failed today, a Dhaka court rescheduled the date for filing a probe report over the killing of 42 civilians during BNP-led alliance’s agitation since January 6.

It scheduled May 17 as the fresh date for filing the report of the case that has BNP chief Khaleda Zia as mastermind and instigator of the killings.

Metropolitan Magistrate Rashed Talukder passed the order after police failed to produce any report today, as ordered by another Dhaka court on February 2.

BNP-led 20-party’s blockade continued for a hundred days since the start of this year killing 64 innocent people in the end and screwing an economic loss of $2.2b.

AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad, a pro-Awami League organisation, filed the case with the CMM court.

It is accused that the BNP-led 20-party men threw petrol bombs at transports and blasted crude bombs during the agitation, leaving 42 people killed and hundreds injured.

Khaleda has been accused in three more cases filed by police -- two with Jatrabari another with Comilla’s Chauddagram police stations -- of masterminding the arson attacks on public transport during the countrywide blockade.