Delwar murder in Gazipur: Family rejects probe report

The family has rejected the probe report submitted by police in connection with the case filed over the killing of Gazipur City Corporation's former executive engineer Delwar Hossain.

Khodeja Akhter, Delwar's wife, on Wednesday filed an application with a Dhaka court, seeking for further investigation into the case.

Khodeja said the IO pressed charges against three people, including one of her husband's colleagues, without finding out the masterminds.

She also claimed the IO did not probe the case properly.

Judge (in charge) Bilkis Akhter of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court  fixed October 30 for hearing.

On May 3 last year, Sheikh Mofizul Islam, an inspector of Turag Police Station, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka, accusing Mohammad Selim alias Anis Howlader, an assistant engineer of the city corporation, and his two accomplices -- Helal Howlader and Habibur Rahman Khan.

Selim secured ad-interim bail from the High Court on June 29.

According to the charge sheet, Delwar was killed over a disagreement with his colleague Selim over the latter's illegal activities. Selim used to take illegal benefits from different contractors, but Delwar opposed such illegal activities, the charge sheet said.

Police recovered the victim's body from an empty plot of Uttara Sector-17 near Beribadh around 4:00pm on May 11, 2020.

Khodeja filed the murder case with Turag Police Station, accusing some unidentified people.