The Criminal Investigation Department of police will submit the supplementary charge sheet of the sensational August 21grenade attack case, to the court today.
Abdul Kahar Akond, Special Superintendent of the CID police and chief of the investigators panel told the news agency, 'We have already completed the reinvestigation into the case and are ready to submit the charge sheet to the court.'
'We will submit the charge sheet of the case to the court tomorrow ( Sunday) accusing nearly three dozens of people including some stalwarts of last four-party alliance government and top ranking domestic and foreign militants,' he said, adding that the nation would be able to know the names of the culprits who were involved in the gruesome attack.
Twenty-four people including the then chief of Mahila AL Ivy Rahman were killed and over 300 others injured in the attack where AL chief and incumbent prime minister Sheikh Hasina was addressing an anti-terrorism rally on that day. Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack but became hearing impaired.
Another senior police official told the news agency that at least 30 people including some political bigwigs of the previous four-party alliance government and top militants of the region had been found involved in the attack.
The role of Tarique Rahman, BNP's senior vice- chairman and elder son of former prime minister and BNP chief Khaleda Zia, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, Khaleda Zia's the then political secretary Haris Chowdhury, former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and four-party alliance coalition minister and secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were vital in the attack.
Besides, top militant of the country Mufti Hannan, Indian top militant Abdul Malek alias Majed Butt, deputy minister Pintu's brother Tajuddin Ahmed, Sheikh Farid, Abdus Salam and Abdul Hannan alias Sabbir were directly involved in the attack.
The investigators enlisted the names of several hundred people as prosecution witnesses and 100 evidence to prove the case.
Among the accused, Mufti Hannan, Abdus Salam, Sheikh Farid, Abdul Hannan and Majed Butt have already gave confessional statements before the court under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code regarding the attack.
Besides, over a dozen of former senior government officials including former home secretary Omar Faruk, former inspector general of police Abdul Quiyum, former additional IGPs Farrukh Ahmed Chowdhury, SM Mizanur Rahman and Md Shamsul Islam also given confessional statements under the same section before the court regarding the attack.
Source : New Age
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