SC lawyer Shakila, 32 others charged with funding militancy

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today pressed charges against Supreme Court lawyer Shakila Farjana and 32 others in a case filed for funding a Chittagong-based militant group.

Rab-7 Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ruhul Amin submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Chittagong, our district correspondent reports quoting Court Inspector HM Mashiur Rahman.

On August 18 last year, Rab arrested Shakila and two other lawyers--Hasanuzzaman Liton and Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon--from the capital's Dhamondi area for their alleged link in funding Shaheed Hamja Brigade, with Tk1.08 crore. Later, they were shown arrested in the case. 

On February 23 the same year, the case was filed under anti-terrorism act-2009 with the local police station.

Earlier Shakila and 27 others were charged with another case filed under arms act.