Aminul Islam
The home ministry has asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police to inform it in seven days the progress of investigation into the killing of labour rights activist Aminul Islam.
The directives followed a similar order issued 11 days ago which failed to move the CID to act.
A trade union organiser with the Bangladesh Centre for Workers Solidarity (BCWS), Islam, 39, disappeared from Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital on April 4, 2012. His body was discovered two days later in Tangail, almost 100 kilometres from where he was last seen.
Despite pressure by rights activists home and abroad, no headway has been made in the probe in almost 15 months into the murder.
The inaction to find and punish the perpetrators is believed to be one of the reasons for which the US cancelled Bangladesh’s preferential trade benefits on June 27.
Earlier this month, Home Minister MK Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir told the reporters that he saw no progress of investigation into the killing.
After the government moved to convince the US authorities to reinstate the GSP (generalised system of preferences), the home ministry moved to expedite the investigation.
On Tuesday, it ordered the additional inspector general of CID to inform the progress by seven working days, Md Abu Sayeed Mollah, senior assistant secretary of the ministry who signed the letter, told The Daily Star.
Source: The Daily Star
