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| Five charged with Oyasiqur murder |
| 2015-09-03 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] At least eight members of banned myrmidon outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team were involved in the murder of secular activist Oyasiqur Rahman Babu on March 30, the Detective Branch (DB) of police said in the charge sheet submitted yesterday. DB Inspector Moshiur Rahman, also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court showing 40 people as prosecution witnesses. He named five Ansarullah members in the charge sheet since details about the three others -- Masum alias Masud, Sharif and Abrar -- were not found. "They will be named in a supplementary charge sheet once we get details or arrest them," the IO mentioned in the charge sheet. It says the killers first planned to kill Oyasiqur in December. General Recording Officer of the CMM Court Sub-Inspector Altaf Hossain said: "The charge sheet will be produced before the court of Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman on Thursday [today] for next course of action." The five accused are Zikrullah alias Hasan, Ariful Islam alias Mushfique, Saiful Islam alias Monsur, Akram Hossain Hasib alias Abdullah and Maulana Junayed alias Taher. Of them, Akram and Taher are on the run. Of the others now in jail, Saiful was locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! with firearms and machetes in his possession in Jatrabari area on March 23. Police claimed that Saiful along with Zikrullah and Arif were going to kill Oyasiqur on that day. On the other hand, Zikrullah and Arif were held by some transgender people when they tried to flee after hacking Oyasiqur to death at Begunbari in Tejgaon Industrial Area. Another killer Taher expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. In primary interrogation, they claimed that a "hujur" (religious scholar) had professed to kill atheists while a "Boro Bhai" (senior brother, Abdullah) gave them Oyasiqur's photographs and the murder weapons. The charge sheet says that Abdullah, who works as an organiser for the outfit, criminal masterminded the killing, and gave arms and training to the killers for three months. A travel agency trainer by profession, Oyasiqur was an active campaigner of the ongoing war crimes trials and advocate of secular spirit. In early May, a group called al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) grabbed credit for the murders of Oyasiqur and other secular activists since 2013. It is alleged that Ansarullah members are representing AQIS in Bangladesh. The charge sheet says that the accused first planned to kill Oyasiqur after holding a meeting at Arif's house in Mirpur 11 area on December 15 last year. They also sat together at a house of South Kajla in Jatrabari some days before the killing. Zikrullah is a student of Hathazari Madrasa in Chittagong. Arif had been a student of the same madrasa and later became a student of Mirpur Darul Ulum Madrasa. Arif was arrested in September 2012 from Raipura of Narsingdi during training at a myrmidon camp. |
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