Humayun Azad Murder Case
Show cause notice for not producing accused
A Dhaka court yesterday issued a show cause notice asking the superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail to explain why the jail authorities failed to produce two accused in Prof Humayun Azad murder case before it yesterday.
The superintendent will have to submit the reply in written form before the court by August 23.
Earlier in the day, the court also fixed September 10 for hearing on charge framing against the five accused in the case.
Judge AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan of Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the order as the jail authorities did not produce two JMB leaders Salehin alias Salahuddin and Hafiz Mahmud alias Hassan before it yesterday as per the court order.
Two other accused Anwarul Alam alias Anwar and Mizanur Rahman alias Minhaz were produced before the court while another accused in the case Nur Mohammad is still at large.
On February 27, 2004, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh activists stabbed the 56-year-old Azad, a professor of Bangla department at Dhaka University, while he was trying to hire a rickshaw for going home from the Ekushey Boi Mela (book fair) on the premises of Bangla Academy in the capital.
Following the incident, an attempted murder case was filed against several unknown people.
He died of cardiac arrest in Munich on August 12 that year, according to an autopsy report.
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Kazi Abdul Malek, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted a charge sheet on November 15, 2007 accusing three JMB leaders. They were Minhaz, Nur Mohammad and Anwar.
But later another Dhaka court on October 20 of 2009 ordered a further investigation on the death following an application filed by Azad's brother on October 6 the same year.
CID investigated the matter and found that the JMB leaders were directly involved in the killing of Azad, said CID Inspector Lutfor Rahman.
CID on April 30 this year pressed charges against five JMB leaders appealing to the court to turn the case into a murder case.
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