HC cancels appointment of new N\\\'ganj 7-murder probe body chief

The High Court has revoked the government order on appointment of the new chief of the Naryanganj 7-murder investigating committee. The bench of justices Md Rezaul Haque and Gobinda Chandra Thakur has said in an order that Public Administration Ministry’s Additional Secretary Shahjahan Ali Mollah, who had been overseeing the government-formed enquiry committee from the outset, will have to file the report. Narayanganj City Corporation’s Ward 2 councillor and panel mayor Nazrul Islam, senior lawyer and the district bar association member advocate Chandan Kumar Sarkar and five other people were abducted in Narayanganj city’s Fatulla on April 27. The bodies of six ebductees were found floating in Shitalakkha River on April 30 and that of another victims in Dhaleswari River on May 1. Nazrul’s family alleged that NCC’s Ward 4 councillor Nur Hossain paid Rab-11 officials Tk 60 million for carrying out the abductions and murders. A case was filed naming Nur Hossain as the prime suspect right after the abduction. The High Court ordered, on May 7, the formation of a probe committee with Molla as its chief. It has been tasked to find out if the law enforcers were involved in the murders or whether they were negligent in rescuing the abductees, according to a news agency.