A Habiganj court has accepted a charge sheet against 32 accused, including former minister Lutfozzaman Babar, in the explosives case filed over the grenade attack that killed former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria.
District Session Court Judge Mohammad Atab Ullah accepted the charge sheet on Tuesday afternoon.
Kibria, a technocrat minister during the Awami League-led government’s 1996-2001 tenure, and four others were killed in the grenade attack when he was returning to Dhaka after attending a rally in Habiganj on January 27, 2005.
Two cases were lodged in connection with the attack.
Thirty-two people including Babar, Sylhet City Corporation’s dismissed mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury and Harkat-ul-Jihad leader Mufti Hannan are accused in both the cases.
Of the accused, 15 are in jail, eight on bail while nine others are on the run.
