The police have pressed murder charges against Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony in a case filed over killing two people on Dhaka street.
General Recording Officer (GRO) SI Mahmudur Rahman of Dhaka CMM court told the Dhaka Tribune that DB Sub-Inspector Dipak Kumar Das, also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet with Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Islam's court under section 302 of penal code around 1:20pm Tuesday.
He said: “A total of 37 people have been made prosecution witness in the case. The court fixed August 13 to decide whether it will take the charges into cognisance.”
On April 13, Rony, who was in a drunken stupor, opened fire from his car indiscriminately near Dilu Road leaving two people — rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim and daily Janakantha’s auto-rickshaw driver Yakub — injured.
Hakim succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 15 while Yakub died on April 23.
Hakim’s mother Monowara Begum filed the murder case with Ramna police on April 15.
Rony’s driver Imran Fakir made a confessional statement on June 1. Rony was arrested based on his information and later taken into police custody for interrogation.
Later, he was placed on remand several times.
On June 17, Kamal Mahmood, a friend of Rony, gave a judicial statement in the case.
Later, two more friends of Rony told a Dhaka court that Rony had fired five bullets at New Eskaton that killed two persons.
Tiger Kamal and Md Jahangir Hossain, who were in the Prado jeep during the incident, told the court that Rony had been under the influence of alcohol when they were going to Dhanmondi from Moghbazar.
Rony was annoyed with the tailback created in front of the road near Dilu Road around 1:45am, ahead of Pohela Boishakh, and fired five shots from the jeep indiscriminately, they said.
Metropolitan magistrate Md Nuru Miah recorded their statements.
