40 Jamaat-Shibir, BNP men charge-sheeted in Dinajpur

Police on Sunday pressed charges against 40 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men in a case for petrol bomb attack on a rice-laden truck in Ghoraghat upazila of the district on the night of January 21 this year.

Sub-Inspector (SI) Dulal Haque of Ghoraghat Police Station submitted a charge sheet to the Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court in the afternoon.

Judge Md Rezaul Bari took the charge sheet into cognisance and fixed July 6 for hearing on it, court sources said.

Dulal Haque, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, said 10 out of 40 charge-sheeted accused are now in jail while the rest are still at large.

According to the case statement, Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men threw a petrol bomb on a Bogra-bound rice-laden truck from Nawabganj in Dinajpur in front of Khatun Jannat Women's Madrasa in Ghoraghat upazila on the night of January 21, leaving driver Anisul Haque and helper Sobuj Ali injured.

The injured were admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Md Asadduzzaman of Ghoraghat Police Station filed a case the same night, accusing 50 to 70 unnamed Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men.

After investigation, Sub-Inspector (SI) Dulal Haque pressed charges against 40 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men.