Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 1049 Tue. May 15, 2007  
   
Metropolitan


Momin Murder
Name of OC Rafiq dropped from charge sheet


Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against seven people dropping the name of suspended officer-in-charge (OC) AKM Rafiqul Islam of Motijheel Police Station in the Dhaka Commerce College student Kamrul Islam Momin murder case.

CID ASP Kazi Abdus Sabur, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM), Dhaka showing 24 people as prosecution witnesses.

The chargesheeted accused are Hasibul Haq Jony, Tareq alias Zia, Babu alias 'Thotkata' Babu, Shakhawat Hossain Jewel, Zafar, Monir Howlader and Habibur Rahman. Of them, Monir and Habib are still at large while the rest are now in jail.

Names of OC Rafiq and 20 others were dropped from the charge sheet as their involvement with the murder was not found during the investigation of the case, the IO said. Moreover, Jony had given a confessional statement saying that he along with six others was involved with the killing, he added.

Momin, 18, was killed by a gang of miscreants in front of his Kafrul residence when he was going to his college at about 9.15am on September 13, 2005.

Following the incident, Momin's father Abdur Razzak filed a murder case with Kafrul Police Station accusing OC Rafiq and 25 others.

OC Rafiq was sent to jail on October 16, 2005 as he surrendered to a Dhaka court seeking ad interim bail in connection with the killing. Since then, OC Rafiq has been in jail custody.

The charge sheet will be placed before the court on May 21 for acceptance of it.