Twaki and Narayanganj 7-murder charges will be pressed soon: State Minister Kamal

State Minister for Home Affairs Assaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said charges will be pressed in court soon over two sensational murders in Narayanganj.

He briefed on Sunday about the progress of the investigations into the murder of Tanveer Mohammad Twaki and the killing of seven including City Corporation Councillor Nazrul Islam and lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarker.  

Referring to Twaki’s murder, Kamal said, “I believe RAB will soon submit their findings. The perpetrators involved in the killing will be unmasked and brought before the public.”

The 17-year old son of Rafiur Rabbi, organiser of the Ganajagaran Mancha in Narayanganj, was killed on Mar 6, 2012. His body was found in a canal leading off the Shitalakhyya River two days later.

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Rabbi has been blaming Narayanganj’s powerful Osman family for the murder that is being investigated by RAB. He named local Awami League leader and MP AKM Shamim Osman and his son Ayon Osman as suspects on Mar 18 the same year.  

Meanwhile, a number of RAB officials have been accused of carrying out the seven murders that took the media by storm because of their gruesomeness.

One of them, the then RAB 11 commander former Lt Col Tarek Sayeed Mohammad, is the son-in-law of Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya. 

The seven were abducted on Apr 27, 2014 and the bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya River a few days later.

Nazrul’s family filed a case naming local Awami League leader Nur Hossain. Nazrul’s father-in-law alleged that Hossain had paid RAB Tk 60 million to commit the murders.

He went into hiding after the bodies were recovered and was later arrested in Kolkata, along with two associates, for being an illegal immigrant there.

“India has agreed to return Nur Hossain to Bangladesh. We are maintaining contact with them. He will be brought back any day,” said junior minister Kamal.