Kibria killing probe report submitted to the government, (UPDATE)

The high-profile committee, formed to probe the brutal killing of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, has submitted its report to the home ministry, home secretary Omar Faruq said Wednesday.(UPDATE)

Advisory: UPDATES with Asma Kibria's comment

Dhaka, March 16 (BDNEWS) – The high-profile committee, formed to probe the brutal killing of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, has submitted its report to the home ministry, home secretary Omar Faruq said Wednesday.

Police officials in Habiganj said the charge-sheet into the case is also expected shortly.

"Concerned police officials and the enquiry committee investigated separately. However, the result is almost same," said a senior official from Habiganj.

Asma Kibria, the widow of late Shah AMS Kibria, meanwhile rejected the enquiry committee report.

"No enquiry conducted anyone other than FBI will be acceptable," she said.

Talking to the reporters, the home secretary said that the government would examine the report thoroughly, and before that 'we can't comment on it.'

"We received the report Monday," he said.

After the deadly grenade attack on a rally on January 27 that claimed Kibria and four other Awami League leaders and supporters, the government formed the five-member enquiry committee headed by DIG, Sylhet Range, AKM Mahfuzul Haq.

Other members of the committee were -- Major Moinul Hossain, deputy director of RAB-3, Major Mamun of DGFI, Major Afzal Tarek of NSI and a Special Super of CID.

Habiganj Awami League organising secretary advocate Abdul Mojid filed two separate cases with the police station a day after the attack.

Police and RAB personnel so far arrested 16 people, including BNP district vice president and central president of Zia Smriti and Research Parishad AKM Abdul Qayum, suspecting their involvement in the grisly murder.

Other arrested are Shah Alam, Zamir Ali, Abdul Wahed Shohel, Zoinal Abedin Jalal, Tajul Islam, Abdur Rashid Talukdar Iqbal, Shahed Ali, Aayat Ali, Selim Ahmed, Osman Gani, Tajul Islam, Joinal alias Momin, Kajal Miah, Zahedur Rahman and Nazrul Islam.

Eight of the arrested have been attached with the cases as 'shown arrest' after interrogating them by the joint interrogation cell (JIC) for several times.

Later, Shahed Ali, general secretary of Zia Smriti and Research Parishad, Habiganj unit, Laskarpur union BNP president Zamir Ali, Chhatra Dal leader Tajul Islam and BNP leader Momin made confessional statements before the first class magistrate.

The probe committee so far quizzed 130 people, including witnesses, victims, local political leaders and residents of Boidder Bazar where the bloody attack took place.

BDNEWS/2120 hrs