Grenade Attack at Sylhet Gulshan Centre

Charge-framing date deferred to Nov 24

4 November 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet.

A Sylhet court yesterday again deferred charge-framing against the accused in the case for grenade attack on AL men on Gulshan centre premises in 2004 as prime accused Huji chief Mufti Hannan could not be produced in the court. District and Sessions Judge Md Momin Ullah fixed November 24 for framing charges against six accused in the case. The accused are Mufti Hannan, his brother Mufti Muhibullah alias Muhibur Rahman Ovi, Mufti Main Uddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal, Humayun Kabir Himu, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain Ripon. Of them, Himu is still at large. Police, however, produced Muhibullah, Matin, Bipul and Rahim in the court. The judge asked the jail officials not to send the four to any other jail without permission of the court. Sylhet city AL publicity secretary Mohammad Ibrahim Ali was killed and 50 others were injuried in the grenade attack on the premises of the Gulshan centre minutes after a meeting of the city AL on the night of August 7, 2004. Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Kamran, also the city AL chief, escaped the attack as he had left the scene just minutes before the incident. The then Inspector of the criminal Investigation Department (CID) Md Zobayer Ahmed submitted two charge sheets-- one under Special Powers Act and the other for killing--against the six on September 20, 2008.