Police will submit the supplementary charge sheet on the killing of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's return from abroad, said Abdul Majid Khan, complainant of the case.
According to earlier reports, police were likely to submit it before the Habiganj Judicial Magistrate's Court yesterday.
"It may take one week maximum to submit the charge sheet, and I think nothing is going to be changed, as it was prepared after four years of investigation," Majid, also an Awami League lawmaker, told The Daily Star.
A reliable government source on condition of anonymity said the charge sheet is likely to be placed before Hasina prior to its submission before the court, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
The prime minister will go through it, the source said, adding, the government has no intention to make any changes in the charge sheet.
Former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and thirteen others have been included in the supplementary charge sheet, Investigation Officer (IO) Rafiqul Islam said on Wednesday.
"I won't accept the charge sheet if it's not revised and names of the masterminds behind killing are not incorporated," Asma Kibria, widow of the slain AL leader, said yesterday.
She reiterated her call on the government to take assistance from foreign experts to identify the actual culprits.
Talking about the delay in submitting the charge sheet, Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder said it will be submitted soon.
IO Rafiqul Islam could not be reached over the phone despite repeated attempts for comment.
Sources say he was called to Dhaka by the "higher authorities who were embarrassed" following Asma Kibria's statement denouncing the charge sheet.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was to submit the charge sheet in the sensational murder case on Wednesday. But it deferred the filing as Asma Kibria expressed dissatisfaction over the charge sheet, Majid said.
Kibria was killed in a grenade attack on a rally in Baidyer Bazar in Habiganj on January 27, 2005.
Abdul Mazid Khan filed two cases with the Habiganj Police Station the next day.
Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Biplab Goswami started the trial and framed charges against ten people. But the High Court stayed the trial following an appeal by the complainant.
The then BNP-led government formed a committee to investigate the attack.
The probe body submitted its report in April 2005 accusing ten people including some local BNP men who were released on bail during the last caretaker government rule. One of them later died.
The then IO Atiqur Rahman submitted a charge sheet on March 10, 2005 against the same ten people.
The plaintiff and Kibria's family repeatedly expressed "no confidence" in the probe and called for further investigation.
Following an appeal by the complainant, the High Court ordered further probe. The new IO found banned militant outfit Huji's link with the attack.
Source: The Daily Star (May 27, 2011)
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