Cases sent to CID to remove faults in charge sheets

The assistant superintendent of police of CID Munshi Atiqur Rahman was made the Investigation Officer (IO) in the August 17 series blast cases in the district.

He submitted five separate charge sheets before the magistrate's court on October 18 last year accusing 17 JMB activists including JMB kingpin Abdur Rahman, his younger brother Ataur Rahman Sunny and JMJB chief Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai under section 3,4 and 6 of the Explosive Substance Act.

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The relevant magistrate transferred the five cases to the District and Session Judges' Court for trial on the same day.

The trial court while scrutinising the charge sheets, detected some faults and sent those to IO on January 26 asking him to submit fresh charge sheets after examining the evidences by explosive experts.

On March 2, the IO submitted five supplementary charge sheets against 19 JMB leaders and cadres adding two more accused in the cases. They are Rakib Hasan and Ismail Hossain of Jamalpur.

The District and Sessions Judge also the trial judge of the cases after examining charge sheets and relevant case documents again detected some faults in the charge sheets and sent those to the IO asking him to submit charge sheets rectifying those faults on March 23.

According to court sources, the faulty investigation for the second time has raised questions about the role of the IO in the cases.