A case was lodged on Thursday with a court in Chapainawabganj against five people including former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque and Benazir Ahmed for killing an activist of the then main opposition political party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in an incident of ‘crossfire’ in 2018.
Julekha Begum, wife of deceased BNP activist Abul Hossain, filed the case.
Former Chapainawabganj Rapid Action Battalion camp officer Mozammel Haque, and RAB’s two sources, Monirul Islam Tulu and Md Morsalin, were also named as accused persons in the case.
Accused Shahidul served as the inspector general of Bangladesh Police and Benazir was the director general of RAB when Abul Hossain was killed allegedly in a ‘crossfire’ incident on September 5, 2018.
Additional chief judicial magistrate Abu Taleb of the Chapainawabganj court fixed September 18 for passing further order in the case filed by Julekha, the plaintiff’s lawyer Nurul Islam said.
Julekha, in her case statement, alleged that a group of members of RAB and Police forcibly picked up her husband Abul Hossain from Rohanpur bus stand area under Gomostapur upazila on September 5, 2018, when her husband was returning home from a court in Chapainawabganj.
On the following day, Abul’s bullet-hit body was found at Gomostapur Upazila Health Complex.
Julekha alleged that the members of RAB and Police abducted and killed her husband in the name of ‘crossfire’.
‘My husband’s only crime was that he was involved in BNP politics’, she alleged and said that the members of the RAB and the Police then forcibly took her signatures on a blank paper and ordered her to bury her husband’s body as soon as possible.
Julekha alleged that she tried several times to file a case over the killing of her husband, but the accused persons did not allow her to do so.
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