A Habiganj court has issued arrest warrants against 11 accused, including Khaleda Zia's former political adviser Harris Chowdhury, in a case filed for murdering former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Rashid Ahmed Milon issued the warrants after accepting the charge sheet of the case on Sunday afternoon.
Thirty five people, including Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, BNP General Secretary GS Gaus, were made accused in the charge sheet of the murder case.
Of the accused, eight are on bail while several are in jail.
The same court turned down the bail petition for Lutfuzzaman Babar while issuing the warrant.
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.
