A court in Narayanganj has summoned three police officials pertaining to a case they were investigating regarding the murder of a man who returned home alive four years after the lawsuit was filed.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Begum Farhana Ferdous passed the order on Sunday, said the court's General Recording Officer (GRO) Inspector Md Asaduzzaman.
Md Mamun, 22, a resident of Chandpur, left his house after a family feud in 2014 and remained traceless since then. A case was filed at Fatullah Model police station in 2016 in this regard against six people.
Mamun returned home on September 22.
The court ordered the three investigating officers to appear before it on November 5 and describe details of the case verbally, the GRO added.
The officers are -- Fatullah Model police station Sub-Inspector (SI) Mizanur Rahman, SI Zia Uddin Ujjal of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Harun Or Rashid from CID.
Earlier, the trio submitted written statements over the case after a Narayanganj court on October 1 ordered them to submit those within seven working days.
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On Sunday, defence lawyer Emdad Hossain Sohel said: "We sought release for the six accused in the case. Hearing the matter, the court asked the investigation officers to appear before it for their explanation verbally."
Along with the three officers, Detective Branch (DB) of police Sub-Inspectors Mizanur Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman, Ashraful Islam, and Inspector Md Afzal Hossain Talukdar had investigated the murder case.
On Auguest 23, a schoolgirl who was presumed abducted, raped, and murdered (according to the confessional statements of the accused) turned out to be alive 51 days after the abduction case was filed with Narayanganj Sadar police station.
Traceless for 6 years
On May 10, 2014, Mamun, of Shakharipara village in Chandpur's Matlab, left the house in anger after a family feud. Since then, he remained missing.
On May 9, 2016, Mamun's Kuwait expatriate father Abul Kalam filed a murder case after abduction against six people at Fatulla Model police station.
The accused were Mamun's cousin Taslima Khatun, 20, her brother Rafiqul Islam, 32, their father Rakmat Ali, 55, Taslima's cousins Md Sohel, 25, and Sagar, 28, and maternal uncle Sattar Molla, 37.
According to the case statement, Taslima had a romantic relationship with Mamun. She stayed in her aunt's rented house in Lamapara area of Narayanganj's Fatullah and worked as a garment worker there.
Taslima took Mamun to her aunt's house on May 10 in 2014, and since then he remained traceless.
The then investigating officer SI Mizanur Rahman of Fatullah Model police station took the accused into police custody for interrogation with a remand petition citing Taslima called Mamun and abducted him playing a trick. She killed him after serving him poisoned juice and dumped the body in Shitalakkhya River.
In 2016, Maksuda Begum, wife of accused Sattar Molla, gave her confessional statement as a witness of the "murder and disposal of Mamun's body" under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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In her statement, she said her husband Sattar had beaten her and intimidated her not to disclose the incident for two years.
In the untrue description, she said Sattar and the other accused, fed Mamun drugs which killed him. She claimed that her husband locked her in a room after the murder. From a window of the room, she saw Mamun's body being moved in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.
Maksuda's husband Sattar said, his wife gave the false statement because of marital dispute.
The case was later handed over to CID for investigation.
On December 18, 2019, CID ASP Harun Or Rashid submitted a charge sheet before a court in the district accusing all the six people.
Case filed based on lies
Mamun returned home on September 22 and then appeared before the court on October 1.
On Sunday, he again appeared before it and later told the journalists that the case was lodged based on the lies told by Maksuda Begum.
He said: "I left the house in anger. After two years of the incident, Sattar's wife went to our house and told my mother that I was killed and dumped into a river.
"My family believed her and lodged the case."
