PBI to investigate murder case against Benazir, Shahidul

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Abu Taleb passed the order

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September 18, 2024, 05:05 pm

Last modified: September 18, 2024, 05:16 pm

Former director general (DG) of RAB Benazir Ahmed (L) and former inspector general of police (IGP) Shahidul Hoque (R). Photo: BSS

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Former director general (DG) of RAB Benazir Ahmed (L) and former inspector general of police (IGP) Shahidul Hoque (R). Photo: BSS

A Chapainawabganj court today (18 September) ordered Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate into a murder case against former director general (DG) of RAB Benazir Ahmed and former inspector general of police (IGP) Shahidul Hoque.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Abu Taleb passed the order.

Julekha Begum, wife of victim Abul Hossain Babu filed a case with the Gomostapur Cognizance Court on 12 September for murder of her husband by the law enforcers.

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Other accused of the case are former RAB official Mozammel Hoque, two sources of RAB Monirul Islam Tulu and Md Morshalin.

The FIR of the case said law enforcers picked Abul Hossain Babu from Rohonpur Bus Stand area under Gomostapur upazila in Chapainawabganj district on 5 September 2018 and killed him in the name of crossfire.

Next day his bullet-riddled body was found at Rohonpur Health Complex, lawyer of the plaintiff Advocate Nurul Islam Sentu said.

He added that after primary hearing on 12 September, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Abu Taleb fixed 18 September for the order.

Accordingly, the court today delivered the order and asked PBI to submit the report after investigation, fixing the next hearing on 8 November.