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CID asked to submit probe report by May 30

25 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Court Correspondent

A Dhaka Court yesterday asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the probe report of a case filed for bomb attack on late Prof Humayun Azad by May 30. First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hossain passed the order as the CID failed to submit its probe report by yesterday. The same court had directed the CID on March 22 to complete the reinvestigation by April 25 into the attack on Azad on February 27 in 2004. The same court had ordered a further investigation into the attack on Prof Azad on October 20 last year and directed the CID to submit the probe report by December 20 the same year. But the investigation officer failed to complete the probe. Later, the same court directed the CID to complete the probe by March 22 this year. Following the fresh investigation, CID appealed to the court to take two Jama'atul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) members -- Salauddin alias Salehin and Minnaz -- on remand for interrogation. A gang of criminals stabbed eminent writer Prof Humayun Azad with machetes in front of the Bangla Academy in the city on February 27 in 2004, leaving him critically injured. After his recovery, Prof Azad went to Germany where he died on the night of August 11 the same year.