Mitu murder: Court rejects PBI’s final report against former SP Babul

A Chattogram court today rejected the final report of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), submitted in connection with the murder case of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, filed by former SP Babul Akter.

The Court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mehnaz Rahman passed the order at 1pm, said Babul's Lawyer Advocate Iftekhar Saimul Chowdhury.

Earlier, former Superintendent of Police (SP), Babul Akter, filed a no-confidence petition on the final report submitted by PBI implicating him in the case on September 27. The court later had set November 3 to deliver order on both Babul's plea and acceptance of PBI's report.

Iftekhar Saimul told The Daily Star, "The case has now been resurrected for further investigation."

"As the court dismissed PBI's report, Babul's no-confidence petition was also dismissed," he added.

Iftekhar Saimul said, "During the hearing, we informed the court that Babul Akter had filed a case with Panchlaish Police Station in 2016, but that a new case had been filed just hours after the PBI had submitted its final report, raising many questions."

Earlier, PBI submitted the final report in Mitu murder case filed by Babul, calling him the "mastermind" on May 16 this year.

Later Babul Akter was shown arrested in another murder case, filed by Mitu's father Md Mosharraf Hossain with Panchlaish Police Station on the same day.

On June 5, 2016, Mitu was stabbed and shot dead while she was taking her son Mahir to his school bus at the port city's GEC intersection.

After the murder, Babul filed a case against three unidentified men at the Panchlaish Police Station.

Later the case was taken over by PBI from DB of CMP.

On May 11 this year, Chattogram PBI summoned Babul to its office for interrogation. He failed to give satisfactory answers to the detectives and was taken into PBI custody.