Attack on Khadiza: Ex-BCL man charged with attempt to murder

Police yesterday submitted a charge sheet in a case filed in connection with attacking Khadiza Begum Nargis over a month ago in Sylhet, saying accused Badrul Alam had attacked her with intent to kill her. 

Badrul, suspended student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and a former Chhatra League leader of the university unit, is the lone accused in the case, said Harun-ar-Roshid, investigation officer of the case and sub-inspector of Shahparan Police Station.

In the charge sheet, it has been mentioned that Badrul hacked Khadiza to kill her and did this without anybody's help, he added.

He said police found all the evidence against Badrul that he attacked Khadiza with intent to murder her after being refused to be in a relationship with him.

The victim herself and 35 others were mentioned in the charge sheet as witnesses, he added.

The charge sheet was submitted to the additional judicial magistrate's court of Sylhet. The court fixed November 15 for a hearing on the charge sheet.

Badrul is now in jail in the case lodged with Shahparan Police Station. 

A student of Sylhet Government Women's College, Khadiza was brutally hacked by Badrul with a machete on the campus of Murari Chand (MC) College on October 3. The 23-year-old had gone there to sit for an examination.

A part of the attack was filmed presumably by a bystander with a mobile phone. The video clip went viral.

Rejaus Sattar, a neurosurgeon of Square Hospital in the capital where the victim is being treated, said Khadiza was in a coma when she was brought to the hospital and was gradually recovering from her injuries.