Babar, Harris Chy, SCC Mayor Ariful named in Kibria murder charge-sheet

A supplementary chargesheet has named 35 people, including former State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar, Khaleda Zia's ex-political secretary Harris Chowdhury and Sylhet City Corporation mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury in the ex-Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case. Kibria was injured in a grenade attack on January 27, 2005, when returning from a rally in Baidderbazar in Habiganj Sadar. He died while being taken to Dhaka. His nephew Shah Monjurul Huda, Awami League leaders Abdur Rahim, Abul Hossain and Siddiq Ali were also killed in the attack. More than 200 Awami League leaders and activists were injured. Habiganj's Awami League General Secretary Abdul Majid Khan filed 2 cases over the attacks – one for the killings and the other under the Explosives Act – the same night. Senior Assistant Superintendent Meherunnesa Parul of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet incorporating the names of 11 more accused in the last supplementary charge-sheet before a Habiganj court on Thursday afternoon. The IO also prayed to the court for exempting the 3 accused -- Yusuf Bin Sharif, Abu Bakar Abdul Karim and Ahsan Ullah -- from the previous charge-sheet. Those indicted freshly in the third charge-sheet are Babar, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Harris Chowdhury, Habiganj Mayor and the district BNP general secretary Golam Kibria Gaus, Sheikh Tajuddin, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mohammad Ali, Badrul, Muhibur Rahman, Kajal and Hafez Yahiya, according to a news agency.