Mufti Hannan, five others indicted

A Narayanganj court yesterday framed charges against six people, including Huji chief Mufti Hannan, in two cases filed in connection with a bomb attack on an Awami League office at Chashara.
At least 20 people were killed and over 50 others injured in the attack on June 16, 2001.
After passing the order, Judge Malik Abdullah Al Amin fixed April 29 for starting the trial of the cases and recording the statements of prosecution witnesses.
The five other accused are militant leader Obaidullah Rahman, Narayanganj City Corporation councillor Shawkat Hashem Shaku, Shahadatullah Jewel, and twin brothers Anisul Morsalin and Muhibul Mottakin.
Hannan and Jewel were present in the dock yesterday.
Among the other accused, Shaku is behind bars while Obaidullah is still at large and Morsalin and Mottakin are languishing in an Indian jail.
 On May 2, 2013, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police pressed charges against the six.
Police also cleared 31 people, including the district BNP President Taimur Alam Khandaker, of the charges.
    During investigation into the cases, Ehsanuddin Chowdhury, assistant superintendent of police of Narayanganj CID, found involvement of eight people in the bomb attack.
But the charge-sheet was pressed against six people.
The two cases -- one for the killing and the other under the explosive substances act -- were filed against 39 people after the bomb attack on the AL's office.