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CHARGE SHEET-MURDER-JULHAS
Charge sheet filed in Julhas-Tonoy murder case
DHAKA, July 28, 2019 (BSS) – Police today filed charge sheet against
eight in a case lodged over the murder of former USAID official Julhas Mannan
and his friend Tonoy Majumder.
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit inspector Monirul
Islam filed the charge sheet before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan
Magistrate Saiduzzaman Sharif.
According to the probe agency, a total of 13, all members of Ansar-al
Islam, took part in the killing of Julhas and Tonoy. As the probe agency
managed to collect name and addresses of eight, they have filed charge sheet
against them. If the probe agency can manage to collect the name and
addresses of rest of the accused in future, they will file supplementary
charge sheet.
Of the eight accused, four have been arrested so far. They are- Mozammel
Hossain alias Saimon, 25, Arafat Rahman, 24, Sheikh Abdullah, 27, and
Asadullah, 25. They have already been gave confessional statements before the
court.
The accused, who are yet to be arrested are- sacked army Major Syed
Mohammad Ziaul Haque alias Major Zia, 42, Akram Hossain, 30, Sabbirul Haque
Chowdhury, 25 and Zunaid Ahmed alias Mawlana Zuned Ahammed alias Zunayed, 26.
Unidentified miscreants hacked Julhas and Tonoy to death at Julhas’s
Lake Circus Road house under Kalabagan Police Station on April 25, 2016.
Julhas’s elder brother Minhaj Mannan later filed the murder case with
Kalabagan Police Station.
BSS/CORR/MHR/FI/ 1550 hrs