A Dhaka court on Thursday directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to carry out further investigation into the sensational murder of Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam passed the order after the complainant expressed dissatisfaction with the investigation and submitted a naraji petition against the charge-sheet, seeking further probe.
“The court also ordered submission of the probe report by 20 January,” said Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Prosecution Division Miah Mohammad Ashis Bin Hasan.
Inspector Foysal Ahmed of the Detective Branch (DB) of Police submitted the charge-sheet on 6 January against 17 accused, including alleged shooter Foysal Karim Masud and his parents Humayun Kabir and Hashi Begum. Eleven of the accused have been arrested so far and are now in jail.
The six fugitives include Foysal Karim Masud, his accomplice Alamgir Hossain, alleged mastermind and former ward councillor Taijul Islam Chowdhury Bappi, Filips Scalp, Mukti Akter and Jesmin Akter.
The arrested accused also include Foysal Karim Masud’s wife Shaheda Parvin Samia, brother-in-law Wahid Ahmed Shipu, alleged girlfriend Maria Akter Lima, and others—Md Kabir, Nuruzzaman Nomani alias Ujjal, Civion Dew, Sanjay Chisim, Aminul Islam Raju and Abdul Hannan Foysal.
According to the case statement, Foysal Karim Masud and Alamgir Hossain, riding a motorcycle, opened fire on Hadi while he was travelling in a battery-run rickshaw on 12 December, and then fled the scene.
Inqilab Mancha Member Secretary Abdullah Al Zaber filed the case with Paltan Model Police Station on 14 December.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Siddiq Azad had on 20 December ordered inclusion of Section 302 (murder) of the Penal Code in the case, which was initially filed as attempted murder, following Hadi’s death on 18 December.
