Delwar Hossain Ripon, a leader of Harkatul Jihad (Huji) leader, has been shown arrested in the murder case of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria.
The court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Begum passed the order in response to a plea filed by the investigation officer of the case and also CID ASP Meherunnesa.
The court also granted permission to the investigation officer to quiz Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan at the jail gate over the murder case.
Kibria was assassinated on January 27, 2005 in a grenade attack in Habiganj. Later, Sylhet district Awami League (AL) leader Advocate Abdul Mazid Khan filed a murder case in this connection.
Rafiqul Islam of CID, who has been assigned to lead an additional probe in the case, has identified at least 11 Huji operatives, including Mufti Hannan, to be involved in the attack.
The ten others are former deputy minister and BNP leader Abdus Salam Pintu's brother Moulana Tajuddin, Mizan, Mithu, Abu Zandal, Hannan's younger brother Mohibullah Ovi, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Naim Ahmed Arif alias Limu, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hye and Ahsanullah Kajal.
Of the 11, Kajal died in India in 2006, while Shafiqur, Hye and Tajuddin are still at large and the rest are behind bars.
Recently, a Dhaka court handed down death penalty to eight militants of the Huji, including its top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, for killing 10 people in the attack on the Chhayanaut function on the first day of the Bangla year in 2001.
Another Dhaka court framed charges against 13 members of the Huji, including Mufti Abdul Hannan, in connection with the CPB rally bomb blast case in 2001, that killed five people.
