Arrest Warrant Against Paban
Police fail to submit report to court for third time
A Dhaka court yesterday for the third time directed Bangshal and Chatkhil Police Stations to submit reports on execution of the arrest warrants to it by October 13 against Khandaker Abdul Hamid Paban and Omar Faruk in connection with a cracker explosion case.
The court yesterday did not entertain a petition submitted by Paban's lawyers seeking time to surrender their client before it.
The court on July 5 issued arrest warrants against Paban, son of BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, and Faruk, former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president of Chatkhil thana as they have been absconding.
Judge Mohammad Zohurul Hoque of the 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.
In the yesterday's petition, Paban's lawyers said their client had earlier surrendered before the High Court (HC) for bail. After the hearing, the HC directed Paban to appear before the trial court within six weeks.
Paban was earlier admitted to a clinic while he was addicted with drug in the city's Gulshan area. He was yet to recover from illness. So, they prayed for granting time for surrender, lawyers said.
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 JCD and Dakat Babu -- were arrested on different dates.
During the investigation, Shovon, Rony and Pradip 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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