A Dhaka court has ordered the Detective Branch of police to re-investigate the case filed over the death of four-year-old Jihad, who fell into an abandoned pipe at Shahjahanpur colony in the capital in December last year.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubur Rahman passed the order Thursday after hearing a no-confidence petition filed by defence counsel Jasimuddin Khan.
In its order, the court said an officer at the inspector level should carry out the probe.
Investigators were also ordered to submit the re-investigation report by July 6.
Jihad's father Nasir Fakir Thursday filed the no-confidence petition, claiming that the names of the key accused were not included in the charge sheet.
He also claimed that the investigating officer had deliberately dropped the names of several accused to divert the course of the lawsuit.
Nasir in the petition pleaded with the court to take necessary steps for arranging re-investigation of the case.
On April 17, Inspector Abu Zafar of Shahjahanpur police station, the investigating officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet where he included the names of Abdus Salam, owner of JSR House which installed the deep tube well, and railway engineer Jahangir Alam.
Jahangir, senior sub-assistant engineer of Bangladesh Railway, was on the run but surrendered to the court around 10am yesterday.
Salam was granted bail on April 26 and Jahangir on May 21.
The body of Jihad was pulled out of the pipe on December 27 last year, around 15 minutes after fire officials called off a nearly 23-hour search.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital doctors declared Jihad dead when he was taken there.
The minor boy fell into the pipe, some 40 yards from his house, on December 26 while playing with friends.