Altering Murder Case FIR: HC to deliver verdict on petition Dec 1
The High Court yesterday set December 1 for delivering its verdict on a writ petition that challenged the alleged manipulation of the first information report (FIR) of labour leader Nurul Islam murder case in Rajshahi.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman set the date after concluding hearing on the petition.
Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua appeared for the writ petitioner, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the state.
According to the writ petition, an election to Puthia Motor Sramik Union was held on April 24 this year and Nurul Islam contested the election for the post of general secretary.
The following day, the polls results showed that Abdur Rahman Patal was elected general secretary of the Sramik Union.
Nurul filed a case with a Rajshahi court on June 9 claiming that he bagged 602 votes against Patal’s 520, but the latter was declared elected illegally.
The court on the same day issued an injunction, restricting Patal and three others from taking up the posts of the Sramik Union. The order was imposed on them on June 10.
Nurul went missing around 8pm that day and his body was recovered from SS Brick Field the following day.
Nurul’s daughter Nigar Sultana filed a murder case on June 11 against eight people, including Patal.
In the FIR of the case, she alleged that the then officer-in-charge (OC) of Puthia Police Station Shakil Uddin Ahamed was involved in manipulating the election results in favour of Patal.
Police later submitted an FIR of the murder case to the trial court in Rajshahi, dropping the names of the eight accused.
Meanwhile, a judicial probe has found five police officials, including three additional superintendents of Rajshahi police, responsible in the manipulation of the FIR.
The officials are: additional superintendents of police Md Mahmudul Hasan (administration and crimes), M Matiur Rahman (DSB) and Md Abul Kalam Saahid (Puthia circle); Inspector Mohinul Islam (investigation); and the then OC of Puthia Police Station Shakil Uddin Ahamed.
Rajshahi’s Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan Talukder, who conducted the enquiry as per an HC directive, has sent the probe report to the HC earlier this month recommending orders on the authorities concerned to take legal action against the five officials.
On September 16, the HC bench led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim directed the magistrate to conduct an enquiry into the alleged manipulation of the FIR by Shakil following the same writ petition. It also issued a rule asking government to explain as to why Shakil should not be suspended for manipulating the FIR.
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