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12 January 2010, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Pabna

Former home minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday appealed to a Pabna court to withdraw his name from a murder case in which he was charge-sheeted during the rule of four-party alliance government. However, the present government has decided to withdraw the case, considering it a political one. According to procedure, the person concerned will have to submit a petition to the court, seeking withdrawal of his name from the case. Nasim's name was included in the chare sheet of Pabna municipality chairman Sheikh Shahidullah Bachhu murder case in 2003. Bachhu was murdered on April 4, 1997 when Nasim was the home minister. But the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted the charge sheet to the court, accusing Nasim and 19 others AL men on November 18, 2003. In the charge sheet, CID mentioned that Nasim was the mastermind behind the murder. Former Pabna municipality chairman Johurul Islam Bishu, incumbent chairman and BNP leader Kamrul Hassan Mintu, Pabna Sadar Upazila Chairman and local AL leader Mosharraf Hossain are among the charge-sheeted accused.