Dhaka court asks to produce ex-SP Babul on Nov 10
A Dhaka court today directed the jail authorities to produce former superintendent of police Babul Akhter before it on November 10 in a case filed by PBI chief under Digital Security Act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ashek Imam passed the order after Md Rabiul Islam, an inspector of Dhanmondi Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, filed an application for issuing a custody warrant against him.
Earlier in the day, the same court asked the IO to submit by December 8 the probe report against Babul Akhter and three others.
Three others are journalist Elias Hossain, Babul Akhter's brother Md Habibur Rahman Labu and his father Md Abdul Wadud Mia.
On September 27, PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder filed the case against Babul Akhter and three others with Dhanmondi Police Station on charges of spreading false and untrue information regarding Mitu murder case.
In the case statement, Banaj Kumar said the charges of spreading false and baseless information in Mitu murder case, attempting to divert investigation, inciting communalism, and tarnishing PBI's image or Bangladesh Police's image were brought against the accused.
The case was filed over a video content made by Elias and circulating in online sphere that tarnished the image of Banaj Kumar and PBI as a unit of the police force.
The case also included a section of the Special Powers Act since the video tried to destroy communal harmony by presenting false information of religious issue.
Babul Akhter, now in jail in the case he filed over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016, on September 8 sued six officials of the Police Bureau of Investigation, including its chief Banaj Kumar Mazumder, for custodial torture.
The other accused are PBI Chattogram district SP Nazmul Hasan, Chattogram Metropolitan SP Naima Sultana, PBI former inspector Santosh Kumar Chakma, AKM Mohiuddin Selim and inspector Kazi Enayet Kabir.
Babul complained in the case statement that he was tortured by the accused while he was in PBI custody from May 10-17, 2021.
A court in Chattogram rejected Babul Akhter's appeal to file a case against six police officials including Banaj Kumar Majumder. Chattogram Metropolitan Sessions Judge Dr Begum Badrunnesa rejected the appeal after the hearing.
Mitu was stabbed and shot to death on June 5, 2016 when she was walking her son to his school bus at the Port City's GEC crossing.
Babul Akhter filed a case accusing unidentified persons after the murder.
The PBI submitted the final report on May 12, 2021, in the case filed by Babul Akter in 2016, mentioning Babul as the 'mastermind' of the murder as the investigators claimed to have found his involvement in Mitu murder after five years of investigation.
Mitu's father, Mosharraf Hossain, filed a fresh case on May 12, 2021, over the murder, making Babul Akhter as the prime accused.
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