Paban's Case
Police asked to submit reports by Oct 6
A Dhaka court yesterday again directed police to submit reports on execution of the arrest warrants to it by October 6 against Khandaker Abdul Hamid Paban and Omar Faruk in connection with a cracker explosion case.
The court issued arrest of warrants against Paban, son of BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, and Faruk, former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president of Chatkhil thana, on charge of exploding home-made bombs in front of the BNP chairperson's office.
Judge (in charge) Mohammad Ismail Hossain of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the order as Bangshal and Chatkhil police failed to submit reports by yesterday on execution of arrest warrants against the two accused.
The same court on July 5 took the charges into cognizance against Paban and five others and issued the arrest warrants against Paban and Faruk as they have been absconding since the case was filed.
The case was filed with Gulshan Police Station against Paban and five others on charge of exploding crackers in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office on February 23 this year.
Four other accused -- Golam Sabbir alias Shovon, Syed Hasan Rony and Pradip Saha, secretary of Sonaimuri upazila of JCD and Dakat Babu -- were arrested on different dates.
During the investigation, Shovon, Rony and Pradip Saha had given confessional statements saying that they had exploded home-made bombs in front of the BNP chairperson's office as per Paban's direction.
In their confessional statements given before the magistrate under section 164 of the penal code, they said Paban had hired two other young men to carry out a mock bomb attack on himself to gain sympathy of the BNP high-ups. The whole charade was aimed at consolidating his (Paban's) position in the party, they told the court.
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