Workers' Leader Aminul Murder
6 more witnesses testify
A court here yesterday heard testimonies of six more witnesses in the case for the killing of workers' leader Aminul Islam in 2012.
Judge Waheduzzaman Shikder of Special and Sessions Judge's Court in Tangail heard the testimonies of Aminul's wife Hosne Ara Begum alias Fahima, and his former colleagues Labony Akter, Babul Akhter, Kalpana Akter, Selim Hossain and Mohammad Ibrahim, said Multan Uddin, special public prosecutor of the court.
“Earlier, the court had heard testimonies of three witnesses including the complainant of the case. Total number of witnesses of the case is 25,” he added.
Aminul went missing from Ashulia on the outskirts of capital Dhaka on April 4 in 2012 and his body was found beside Tangail-Mymensingh Highway at Brammanshasan in Ghatail upazila of Tangail the next day.
On April 6, Anjuman Mofidul Islam with the help of the police buried him as an unidentified person in a Tangail graveyard.
Seeing the photograph of Aminul's body in a national daily, his younger brother Rafiqul Islam went to Ghatail Police Station on April 7 and identified the deceased as his brother.
On April 9, his body was exhumed following a court order and he was buried in Kaliakoir, Gazipur.
Aminul, 41, president of Savar and Ashulia units of Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, had been working at Bangladesh Centre for Workers' Solidarity, a non-governmental organisation for workers' rights, in Ashulia, as an organiser since 2006.
Aminul's family members alleged that law enforcers tortured him to death.
After investigation, a charge sheet was pressed against one Mostafizur Rahman, 23, son of Shamsher Mollik of Kadirpara under Shreepur upazila in Magura district on November 14, 2013, court sources said.
According to the statement of the charge sheet, Aminul was worker-friendly as well as an honest and dedicated workers' leader.
As part of a conspiracy, Mostafizur, a self-styled workers' leader, called Aminul away from his office, and killed him with the help of unidentified others, it said.