A Dhaka court indicted Thursday 13 operatives of the banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), including its top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in a murder case linked with the January 21, 2001 blasts at a CPB rally on Paltan Maidan in the capital Dhaka, reports BSS.
Third Sessions Judge Imrul Kayes framed the charges.
Of the accused, Huji chief Mufti Hannan, Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh, Arif Hassan Sumon, Maulana Sabbir Ahmed, Maulana Shawkat Osman and Md Moshiur Rahman are in jails while the remaining others-Mufti Abdul Hai, Shafiqur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar, Md Nur Islam, Mohibul Mustakin, Anisur Rahman and Rafiqul Alam - are still at large.
Five people were killed and 50 others injured in bomb blasts at the rally of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) on January 21 in 2004.
Two separate cases-one for murder and one under explosives act-were lodged in this regard.
After 12 years of the attack, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on November 27 in 20013 submitted charge sheets in the cases before the court accusing 13 HuJI members.
Hannan, 12 others indicted in CPB rally blasts case
FE Team | Published: August 22, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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