MP Shaon not charged

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against six people excluding ruling Awami League lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon in connection with the killing of Jubo League leader Ibrahim Ahmed in August 2010.
The accused are Shaon's bodyguard Delwar Hossain, driver Kamal Hossain Kala, personal secretary Sohel Ahmed, Jubo League activist Golam Mostafa Shimul, Mazharul Islam Mithu and Nur Hossain Munna. All the accused are now on bail.
CID filed the murder charges with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court of Dhaka naming 43 people as prosecution witnesses. The charges have been filed in a murder case lodged with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on September 2 in 2010.
Jubo League leader Ibrahim received a bullet fired from a licensed pistol of MP Shaon in the parliament complex on August 13, 2010.
Driver Kala filed an unnatural death case the following day with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station claiming that the gun went off when Ibrahim was handling it in the lawmaker's car.
Ibrahim's wife Rina Islam had made several attempts to file a case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station but failed.
Six days later the deceased's brother Masum sued Shaon and seven others in a murder case filed with the CMM court.
The seven are Shaon's bodyguard Delwar, driver Kala, Mazharul Islam Mithu, Mizan, and their aides Jibon, Riton and Alam.
Mithu is the owner of the microbus that carried Ibrahim's body to Dhaka Medical College Hospital while Mizan drove the vehicle to the hospital.
According to the case statement, Ibrahim had become more popular than Shaon in Bhola-3 constituency and the accused felt threatened by this. They did not want him to succeed in his political career and that is why Shaon called him over the phone and asked him to give up his dream of becoming the councillor of a ward of Dhaka City Corporation.
Masum claimed that the accused killed Ibrahim and later filed the unnatural death case to divert the investigation in another direction.
Despite repeated efforts, The Daily Star could not reach Ibrahim's wife over the phone last night for her comment about the charge sheet.