Chittagong, Jan 10 (bdnews24.com)--The police have pressed charges against eight more people in the case relating to burning 11 member of a minority family in Banshkhali under Chittagong to death seven years back.
Banshkhali Upazila BNP vice-president and Kalipur union council chairman Aminur Rahman alias Amin Chairman, the main suspect in the killing, is among them, investigation officer Hola Ching Pru, assistant police superintendent of Chittagong Criminal Investigation Department, told bdnews24.com on Monday.
Pru submitted the supplementary charge-sheet to Banshkhali judicial magistrate Mohiuddin Murad on Monday afternoon.
The seven others are Khankabad union council's former chairman Sabur Ahmed Naju, Rashid Ahmed alias Rashid Member, Nur Nobi, Md Yunus, Abul Kalam alias Kailya, Abdul Nobi and Nur Islam alias Baishya.
With submission of the new charge-sheet, 39 people have been implicated in the carnage of Nov 18, 2003, when the two-storied earthen house of Tejendra Shil village Shilpara of Sadhanpur in Banshkhali were torched, leaving 11 people, including a four-day infant, dead.
The lone surviving member of the family Dr Bimal Chandra Shil filed the case in this connection.
First investigation officer in the case Satkania circle ASP Clarence Gomes pressed the charge-sheet on Dec 14, 2005 against 31 people.
But the plaintiff raised objection to the charge-sheet in the court, which ordered further investigation on Mar 20, 2007.
Police submitted supplementary investigation reports several times excluding Amin Chairman, the main suspect, but the plaintiff raised objection every time.
Pru was the seventh investigation officer in the case.
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