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Charge sheet submitted in blogger Niladri murder case


Published : 04 Oct 2020 09:58 PM | Updated : 05 Oct 2020 01:53 AM

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday submitted charges against thirteen suspected militants including sacked army major Syed Ziaul in the case filed over the sensational killing of progressive blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy in August 2015.

Police submitted the charge sheet after five years of investigation in the tragic death of the author.

All charge sheeted accused  are members of banned Islamist terrorists outfit militant outfit Ansar Al Islam, also known as Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).

In the charge sheet, police termed sacked Major Zia as the mastermind of the blogger murder.

According to the investigation officer of the case,  Zia, the military wing commander of the outfit, planned the murder that was executed on August 7, 2015.

The other accused are, top ABT operatives Abu SiddiqSohel and Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon, activists Masud Rana, Saad Al Nahiyan,Tarikul Islam, Kamal Hossain Sardar, Kawsar Hossain Khan, Mortuja Faisal Sabbir, Arafat Rahman Siam, Khairul Islam alias Fahim alias Jishan, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and Mufti Abdul Gaffar.

Earlier, twelve of them were arrested from different places across the country at different times.

The IO showed Zia as fugitive in the charge sheet of the case.

Khairul, Arafat, Abdullah, Sohel and Saimon are now in jail while the rest are on bail.

During the investigation, Khairul, Sohel and Abdullah gave confessional statements before magistrates on different dates.

According to their confessional statements, it was alleged that Masud Rana, Siam and Saimon took part in the killing as per direction of Zia.

Blogger Niloy was hacked to death by a group of assailants at his rented flat on the 4th floor of a multistorey building in Goran on August 7 in 2015 .

Later, the victim's wife Asha Moni filed the murder case with Khilgaon Police Station against four miscreants