Plea against Narayanganj CID probe rejected

The High Court has rejected a plea to stop a probe by police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into the Naryanganj murders. But the court has revised its earlier order on the matter, instructing the CID to run an 'enquiry' instead of an 'investigation'. The bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore gave the order on Thursday after a hearing a state plea. Narayanganj City Corporation Councillor Nazrul Islam, senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar and five others had gone missing on April 27. Their bodies were recovered from the Shitalakhyya River several days later. Police's Detective Branch (DB) is investigating the matter. The High Court later, in a suo-moto rule, instructed the CID to probe the issue. It said that the DB would be in charge of the probe, while the CID would run a 'shadow investigation'. But the state filed a plea on Wednesday, to cancel the CID's probe, claiming that dual investigation into a crime would not be proper from legal point of view and could 'jeopardise' the trial. "A leave petition has been filed, seeking a halt to the CID probe and a single investigation," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said on Wednesday. On Thursday, the High Court turned down the state's plea, according to bdnews24.com.