A Dhaka court on Thursday directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to carry out further investigation into the murder case of Inqilab Moncho 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 (a no-confidence motion) against the charge sheet, seeking a further probe.
The court also ordered the submission of the probe report by January 20, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Deputy Commissioner of Prosecution, Miah Mohammad Ashis Bin Hasan.
Plaintiff’s lawyer Mostafizur Rahman Mukul told the court that the charge sheet failed to identify the main accused or the planners behind Hadi’s murder.
Earlier, Inqilab Moncho member secretary Abdullah Al Jaber, the complainant in the case, submitted an objection to the court after reviewing the charge sheet.
On January 6, DB Inspector Faisal Ahmed, the investigating officer of the case, submitted charges against 17 accused.
Among the main accused named in the chargesheet are Faisal Karim Masud alias Daud, his associate Alamgir Hossain, Dhaka Metropolitan North Jubo League organising secretary and former ward councillor Taizul Islam Chowdhury Bappi, Philip Snal Philips, Mukti Akter, and Faisal’s sister Jasmine Akter. They are currently absconding.
The remaining 11 accused are now in custody. They include Faisal Karim Masud’s father Md Humayun Kabir, mother Mst Hasi Begum, wife Saheda Parvin Samia, friend Maria Akter Lima, brother-in-law Wahid Ahmed Shipu, rent-a-car businessman Mufti Md Nuruzzaman Nomani alias Ujjwal, close associate Md Kabir, Sibion Dew, Sanjoy Chisim, Md Aminul Islam alias Raju, and Md Faisal, who was arrested with weapons in Narsingdi.
The investigating officer has also sought arrest warrants against the six absconding accused.
Osman Hadi, who was also running for the Dhaka-8 constituency in the coming election, was shot by assailants on a motorcycle around 2:30pm on December 12 in the Box Culvert Road area of Paltan, sustaining bullet wounds to the head and below his right ear.
He was first taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and later shifted to Evercare Hospital.
As his condition worsened, he was flown to Singapore by air ambulance on December 15 for advanced treatment, where he died on December 18.