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Controversial charge sheet

3 May 2009, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Satkhira

The investigation officer (IO) allegedly dropped the name of an Awami League (AL) leader in the second charge sheet submitted in a drug peddling case. The IO, Inspector AKM Fazlul Haque of the district Narcotics and Drug Control Department, submitted on April 22 a charge sheet against three people including Sreeula Union Parishad (UP) Chairman Abu Hena Shakil, also a leader of Assassuni upazila AL, in a drug peddling case. But later the same IO withdrew the charge sheet and submitted another charge sheet where Shakil's name was dropped. Shakil was shown absconding soon after filing of the case. When contacted, the IO said, “I prepared two separate charge sheets. In the first one, I pressed charges against the three accused and in the other one, I pressed charges against two accused. But I did not submit the first charge sheet.”