Ctg Shrine Loot
Ex-Rab man surrenders to court
Flight Lt (sacked) Sheikh Mahmudul Hasan, one of the seven accused in a case filed over the robbing of a Chittagong shrine, surrendered before a Chittagong court and obtained bail yesterday.
Mahmudul had failed to appear before the court by September 12, the date his earlier bail expired, and the court had issued an arrest warrant against him, said Sub-Inspector Shamima Khatun, posted at Chittagong Court's general record office.
Yesterday Mahmudul's lawyers told the Chittagong Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court that he had been ill and the court granted him bail till October 14, the next hearing date of the case, she said.
As per the case statement, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in plainclothes stormed the shrine, Talsara Darbar Sharif, in Anwara upazila on November 4, 2011.
Keeping Pir (spiritual leader) Ahammed Safa Shah confined to a room at gunpoint, they broke open three cupboards and looted Tk 2.07 crore kept in six travel bags.
Four months later, a driver of the shrine, Idris Ali, filed the case with Anwara Police Station accusing 10 Rab men and two of their informants.
Police submitted the charge sheet to a Chittagong court on July 26 accusing the seven, including Mahmudul, who was an officer of Rab-7, and the then Rab-7 commanding officer Lt Col (sacked) Zulfiqar Ali Majumder.
The Rab authorities had sent both the officers to their respective forces after a departmental investigation found the accusations against them to be true.
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