Hadi murder case investigation report delayed for the 14th time

❐ Staff Reporter

The court has postponed the date for submitting the further investigation report in the murder case of Inqilab Manch convener Sharif Osman Hadi for the 14th time, setting June 7 as the next date.

Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam set the new date after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) investigation officer and Dhaka Metro (East) Assistant Superintendent of Police Abdur Qadir Bhuiyan failed to submit the report on Sunday.

SI Ruknuzzaman of the Prosecution Department confirmed the matter.

Sharif Osman Hadi, who rose to prominence through the July terror protests and demands to ban the Awami League, announced that he would be an independent candidate from the Dhaka-8 constituency in the 13th parliamentary election.

On December 12, while he was in a moving rickshaw in the Vijayanagar area for a public meeting, he was shot by an assailant sitting on the back of a moving motorcycle.

The seriously injured Hadi was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for surgery. That night, he was admitted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka and two days later was airlifted to Singapore. He was reported dead on December 18 while undergoing treatment there.

After Hadi was shot, Abdullah Al Jaber, the member secretary of the Inqilab Mancha, filed a case of attempt to murder on December 14. Later, Section 302 of the murder was added to the case. The responsibility of investigating the case shifted from the police station to the Detective Branch (DB).

After the investigation, the DB police filed a charge sheet on January 6, accusing a total of 17 people, including former ward councilor Taijul Islam Chowdhury Bappi and former Chhatra League activist Faisal Karim Masud. But Inqilab Manch was not satisfied with this charge sheet.

On the day of the hearing on January 12, plaintiff Abdullah Al Jaber asked for two days to review the charge sheet, but the court granted it and set the next hearing date as January 15.

The plaintiff filed an objection against the DB’s charge sheet that day. Later, the court assigned the CID the responsibility of further investigating the case.

The main accused in the charge sheet is Faisal Karim Masud alias Rahul alias Dawood (37). Along with him, his father Md. Humayun Kabir (70), mother Hasi Begum (60), wife Shaheda Parveen Samia (24), brother-in-law Wahid Ahmed Shipu (27) and girlfriend Maria Akhter Lima (21) have been named as accused. Apart from this, Md. Kabir (33) and Md. Nuruzzaman Nomani alias Ujjwal (34) have been named as accused.

Sibion ​​Diu (32), Sanjay Chisim (23) and Md. Aminul Islam alias Raju (37) have been charged with aiding and abetting the escape to India.

Md. Faisal (25), Md. Alamgir Hossain alias Alamgir Sheikh (26) and former ward councilor Md. Taijul Islam Chowdhury Bappi have been arrested in connection with the recovery of the weapons used in the murder.

A total of five people, including Philip Snal (32), Mukti Mahmud (51), Jasmine Akhter (42) and the main accused Faisal Karim, are still at large.

The chargesheet filed by the investigation officer, DB Police Inspector Faisal Ahmed, analyzed the political identities of the accused and the political statements made by Hadi at various times and stated that Hadi was shot dead due to political vendetta.

However, there are allegations that Hadi may have been killed due to internal conflicts and political ‘corpse-trading’ among like-minded parties, including Jamaat-e-Shibir and NCP, which were involved in the July terror attacks.

The charge sheet also states that accused Faisal Karim Masud and his associates infiltrated Hadi’s election campaign in a premeditated manner to disrupt the upcoming 13th parliamentary elections and create fear among voters.

After the CID’s further investigation report was postponed 14 times, a new date has now been set for June 7. There is still uncertainty about when the trial of the case will begin.