Grenade Attack on Sylhet AL MP's House: Charges pressed against Huji chief, five others

Six and a half years into the incident, the CID yesterday afternoon filed charge sheet in the case for grenade attack on the house of Sylhet district Mohila AL president Syeda Zebunnesa Haque, also lawmaker from Sylhet-Sunamganj district.

Inspector Shamim Ur-Rashid of the CID, Sylhet zone submitted the charge sheet with the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Sylhet Abu Syed Diljar Hossain accusing six people including the outlawed Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan.

Five of the six Huji leaders and operatives are now in jail in connection with other cases.

However, the Investigation Officer (IO) dropped names of seven other accused from the charge sheet.

The IO said in his charge sheet that the Huji men carried out the grenade attack with a motive to kill the Mohila AL leaders when they were at a meeting of the district committee at Mohila AL president's house in Sylhet city's Tantipara area on 24 December of 2004. The accused managed to flee the scene immediately after the attack, he said.

Eight leaders and activists, including the Sylhet City Corporation's female commissioner Shahana Begum, SCC mayor's wife Asma Kamran and others were injured.

Syeda Zebunnesa Haque's husband Enamul Haque, also a leader of the district AL, filed a case with the Sylhet Kotwali PS the same night.

The charge sheeted accused are, Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Mufti Mohibur Rahman alias Muhibullah, Mufti Main Uddin Sheikh alias Mufti Abu Zandal, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Delwar Hossain Ripon and Humayun Kabir Himu (absconding).

Charges were dropped against Luthfur Rahman Talukder, ZM Ilyas Kanchan, Huji's Badrul Alam Mizan (charge sheeted in Kibria killing case), Syed Nayeem Ahmed Arif (charge sheeted in Kibria killing case), Ahsan Ullah Ahsan alias Hasan, Fokhrul Islam Fahim and Sayeed.

Source : The Daily Star

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