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Published : 15 Oct 2025, 01:55 PM
A tribunal has indicted top criminal Subrata Bain aka Md Fateh Ali and three of his accomplices in a weapons case filed at Hatirjheel Police Station in Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Special Tribunal Judge Fahmida Jahangir made the decision on Wednesday after scrapping the petitions by the suspects to drop them from the case.
State lawyer Mahfuz Hasan confirmed the decision.
The three others accused alongside Subrata are Abu Rasel Masud aka Molla Masud, MAS Shareef, and Arafat Ibne Nasir.
Subrata and Arafat were brought to court from prison for the indictment hearing. The two other suspects joined the hearing virtually from jail.
The hearing began at 1pm, with state lawyer Mahfuz pleading for the indictment of the suspects and defence lawyer Kazi Mojibur Rahman petitioning for them to be exempted from the case.
After hearing from both sides, the judge scrapped the exemption petition and framed the charges against the suspects.
She then read the charges against them aloud and asked whether they were guilty or not guilty.
The suspects claimed they were not guilty. The judge then set Nov 16 for the first day of testimony in the case.
Inspector Aminul Islam of the Detective Branch (DB), who led the investigation, submitted the chargesheet to the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Wahiduzzaman on Jul 13.
The judge subsequently transferred the case to the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court for trial, according to Sub-Inspector Moksedul Islam of the prosecution team.
Subrata, also known as Fateh Ali, was arrested along with Molla Masud on May 27 during a pre-dawn operation by the Bangladesh Army in Kushtia.
Based on intelligence obtained during interrogation, two more operatives, Sharif and Arafat were picked up later from Hatirjheel.
The Army reported seizing five foreign-made pistols, 10 magazines, 53 rounds of ammunition, and a satellite phone during the raid.
Following the arms seizure, Hatirjheel police Sub-Inspector Asaduzzaman filed the case on May 28 under the Arms Act.
The case document notes that Subrata was listed in 2001 by the Ministry of Home Affairs among 23 top criminals, with cash rewards offered for information leading to their arrests.
He led the infamous “Seven Star Group”, accused of widespread extortion, murder, and armed robbery in the early 2000s before fleeing to India.
According to the case, Subrata returned to Bangladesh after Aug 5, 2024, following the ousting of the Awami League government, and resumed criminal activities. Police allege the gang regularly held meetings and stockpiled weapons at a house in Hatirjheel owned by Sharif, where the later arrests were made.
