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An air of gloom and despondency envelops the home of slain Narsingdi mayor Lokman Hussain on Friday after the menfolk leave for the mosque for prayers, while widow Nusrat Tamanna Bubbly and the mayor?s children wait for justice.The sensational Lokman Hussain murder case in which Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu, younger brother of Post and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju has been named as the prime accused, was handed over to Detective Branch on Friday. Sources said that DB and the district police have been ordered to work together to unravel the mystery and arrest the absconding accused, particularly Salahuddin Bachchu, whose political rivalry with Lokman, led to the gruesome murder, according to the victim?s family.
Significantly Narsingdi Superintendent of Police Dr Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan and Additional Superintendent of Police Enamul Kabir were removed from their posts allegedly for dereliction of duty. The removal of top cops reveals the government?s discomfort over the shoddy investigations so far.
Police conducted raids on Friday to nab the alleged killers named in the case filed against 14 persons by Lokman?s brother Mohammad Qamruzzaman on Thursday night.
?We are confident that we will be able to arrest everyone named in the case including Salahuddin Bachchu,? officer-in-charge of Narsingdi police station Anwar Hossain told reporters on Friday.
Mamunur Rashid Mondal, DB inspector in Narsingdi, has been appointed investigation officer of the politically sensitive case making headlines in the print and electronic media.
?We are trying out best to arrest the accused who are now on the run. But we will get them sooner than later,? he said.
The Narsingdi Mayor?s murder is being widely seen as yet another proof of the criminalization of politics. Others regard it as the politicization of crime.
Complainant Qamruzzaman said that his elder brother Lokman virtually gave a dying declaration while he was being rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to bullet injuries.
?My brother was a candidate for the post of General Secretary in the next district Awami League committee,? said Qamruzzaman, adding that Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu, brother of Raju, was also eyeing the same post.
Qamruzzaman also named Matin Sarker and Tareq Ahmed as accused. The duo were defeated by slain mayor Lokman in the municipal elections earlier this year.
Shamim Newaz, another brother of Lokman, insisted that their family had filed the case accusing 14 people on the basis of concrete evidence about their involvement in the killing.
Shamim, a vice president of Narsingdi Government College Student Union and general secretary of district unit of AL-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League, also said the administration might have more evidence to unearth more conspirators and nail them.
Meanwhile, the police headquarters on Friday withdrew Superintendent of Police (SP) Dr Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan and closed him on charge of his negligence to duty. Additional Police Super (DB) Enamul Kabir was also closed on the same charge.
Additional Police Super (DSB) Bijoy Basak has been made Police Super
(current charge) of the district. Additional Police Super of Faridpur Gopal Chandra Saha has been transferred to Narsingdi as ASP. Inspector General of Police Dr Hassan Mahmood Khandker has confirmed the action to daily sun.
Even before filing of the case, district unit president of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party Khairul Kabir Khokon and a few other BNP activists were detained on suspicion.
However, in the case, the plaintiff, Qamruzzaman, named mostly local leaders and supporters of Awami League and the people close to the telecommunications minister, including his brother and the assistant private secretary. Two BNP leaders excluding Khokon were also sued.
So far, six people including Khokon have been picked up from different parts of the district and its surroundings for interrogation, the police said.
A protest rally was held at Awami League office in Narsingdi on Friday that demanded arrest and punishment of killers of Lokman, who was elected mayor (previously chairman) of Narsingdi municipality twice.
Prominent accused, according to the statement, include Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu (52), younger brother of the telecom minister, Abdul Matin Sarker (55), a former municipality chairman and vice president of district AL, Mobarak Hossain (41), deputy publicity secretary of district AL, Montazuddin Bhuiya (50), president of town AL, Nurul Islam, sadar upazila BNP general secretary, Tareq Ahmed (46), district BNP leader, Masudur Rahman Murad (40), APS to telecom minister, Mia Md Manjur (40), former vice president of Narsingdi Government College Student Union, and Asraf Hossain Sarker (38), president of town unit of the Jubo League.
Others who have been implicated in the case are Monwar Hossain Khan alias Main (40), AL supporter and owner of a printing press, Hiron Miah (40), AL supporter, Kabir Sarker (42), AL supporter, Amir Hossain alias Amu (45), AL, supporter and complainant of Manik commissioner murder case, and Mamun (25), supporter of AL.
Two cases against 500 people
Railway authorities filed two cases early Friday with Bhairab railway police accusing more than 500 unidentified people in connection with torching of 10 bogies of a train by violent demonstrators on Wednesday following the killing of Narsingdi municipality mayor Lokman Hossain on Tuesday night.
Hundreds of local people put up a barricade on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway and set fire to a number of train bogies.
The demonstrators torched the Kishoreganj-bound train at Bashail in the district town.
Narsingdi Railway Station Master Moran Chandra Das, in his written complaints, said a group of undisciplined men numbering 400-500 with lethal weapons entered the platform and ransacked relay room and damaged signal and electric machine. They caused damage to properties including the building worth Tk 44 million.
Source: daily-sun.com
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