Case sent to CID for reinvestigation

The action followed submission of a 'naraji' (no confidence) petition to the home ministry by plaintiff Royesuddin, alleging that innocent persons were implicated in the charge sheet.

Official sources said the Additional Inspector General of Police (CID) ordered further investigation following submission of the naraji petition.

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Zahida Khatun, daughter of farmer Raihan Joarder of Boroichara village in Sreepur upazila, appeared at the HSC examination last year from Dariapur College. She secured first division in HSC from Humanities Group as she got also in the SSC examination.

But she could not know her HSC result as she was gangraped and strangled by some local miscreants on July 5, 2002, few days after the examination.

Family sources said, while returning home from her friend's house, Zahida was caught by the miscreants allegedly led by Manun of the same village in daylight and dragged to a jute field. She was killed after gangrape.

Royesuddin, elder brother of the victim, filed a case with Sreepur police.

The local administration at a meeting on August 27, 2002 put the case on the list of 'sensitive' cases and sent it to DB (Detective Branch) police for investigation.

After about 8 months' investigation, DB Inspector Shahidul Islam on April 26 submitted two charge sheets under Section 302/3 of Bangladesh Penal Code and Section 9(4) (kha) of Woman and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000.