BNP leader Khokan, his wife among 70 sued over JCD leaders' killings

NARSINGDI, May 27 (UNB): Seventy people have been sued in a case over the gunning down of two members of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the BNP's student front, during a factional clash in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi last Thursday.
Of them, 30 people including BNP's Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokan and his wife Shirin Sultana, self- affairs secretary of party's central committee, were sued as identified accused in the case while the rest were unidentified individuals.
Abul Kashem, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, confirmed the development saying that victim Sadekur Rahman Sadek's elder brother Altaf Hossain filed the case on Friday night.
Three people including district chapter Jubo Dal's Convenor Mohsin Hossain Biddyut have so far been arrested, he said.
According to the case statement, the criminals in a planned way shot the JCD men.
Earlier on Thursday afternoon, some JCD men, who lost out in the newly formed 71-member committee of the district unit, brought out a procession in favour of a district BNP programme scheduled to be held on May 27 near the house of Khairul Khokan in Chinishpur area of Sadar upazila.
Suddenly, some members of the new committee opened fire on the procession.