60 charged with Aminbazar killing

The file photo shows clothes and a sandal of the students who were bludgeoned to death by a mob of several hundred villagers at Keblarchar in Aminbazar on the outskirts of the capital early July 18. 

Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday pressed charges against 60 people on charge of killing six students at Aminbazar in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital in 2011.

Abdul Malek, a sand trader, has been made prime accused in the case.

Additional Superintendent of Rab Sharif Uddin Ahmed, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Dhaka.

The IO discharged lone survivor of the Aminbazar incident Al Amin in a robbery case filed by Malek.

He also appealed to the court to file a case against the sand trader.

Among the charge-sheeted accused, 24 were arrested for their alleged involvement with the killing. Of them, 13 had secured bails from different courts on different time.

The remaining 36 accused are on the run.

Fourteen of the accused had earlier given their confessional statements in the case.

Early hours on July 18, 2011, six students were beaten to death and another injured by a mob at Bardeshi village in Aminbazar.

The dead are Tipu Sultan of Tejgaon College, Towhidur Rahman Palash, Kamruzzaman Kanto and Ibrahim Khalil of Mirpur Bangla College; Shams Rahim Shamam of Maple Leaf International School, and Sitaf Jabi Munif of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology.

The next day of the incident, Malek filed the robbery case against the six deceased and the lone survivor with Savar Police Station.

Source: The Daily Star