Charge framing against police adjourned
A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned till April 24 the charge framing against four police officers, including the then Ramna police chief, in a case filed for falsely implicating and torturing a Dhaka University student in connection with the attempt to kill Prof Humayun Azad.
The cops are the then OC Mahbubur Rahman, sub-inspectors Rezaul Karim and Naser Ali of Ramna Police Station, and sergeant Anwar Hossain, who was in charge of Nilkhet Police Box.
Third Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hussain passed the order after lawyers for the four accused submitted a petition seeking adjournment of the hearing.
A gang of miscreants attacked Prof Humayun Azad in front of Bangla Academy on February 27, 2004, leaving him seriously injured.
On February 28, police arrested Mohammad Abu Abbas Bhuiyan, Mass Education Affairs' secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) central committee, in this regard.
However, after a probe, police pressed charges against Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members in the case while dropping Abbas's name from the charge sheet on November 15, 2007.
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