Ahsanullah Master Murder Case: Two death row convicts’ houses attacked in Tongi
Houses of two death row convicts in Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master murder case was ransacked and set on fire in Gazipur’s Tongi upazila on Friday evening.
Relatives claimed that local AL activists carried out the attack on houses of Shahidul Islam Shipu and his brother Nurul Islam Dipu at Gopalpur, said Officer-in-Charge of Tongi Police Station Kamal Hossain.
Shahidul is now in jail in the case while Nurul Islam is on the run.
Nurul’s wife Sharifa Khanam and nephew Shahriar Nazim said a group of people chanted slogan “Awami League” during the attack. The miscreants vandalised furniture and set the houses on fire by pouring petrol, they said.
Firefighters rushed to the spot and doused the blaze, said Atiqur Rahman, senior station officer at Tongi fire station.
Three rooms were damaged in the fire while furniture of around 20 rooms were ransacked, fire service sources said.
Mazharul Islam, a local AL leader and councillor of ward-44, did not respond to phone calls repeatedly made by this correspondent.
On May 7, 2004, gunmen shot and killed Ahsanullah, also then president of Jatiya Sramik League, and Omar Faruq Ratan, a young man, and wounded 17 others.
The next day, Ahsanullah’s brother Motiur filed the case against 19 people, including Jubo Dal leader Nurul Islam Sarkar.
On April 16, 2005, a Dhaka court handed down death sentences to 22 people, including Shahidul and Nurul, and life terms to six others for killing Ahsanullah.
A decade later, On June 15, 2016, HC confirmed death penalty of six persons, including the duo. It, however, commuted capital punishment of seven others to life imprisonment, upheld life term of two and acquitted 11.
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