A Chittagong court on Monday accepted the charge sheet submitted by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) charging seven people including former superintendent of police (SP) Babul Akter in the sensational Mitu murder case,
Chittagong Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Abdul Halim accepted the charge sheet after a hearing, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution) Kamrul Islam.
He said that Babul was presented before the court in the morning. However, when Babul filed an appeal against the charge sheet, the court rejected it.
On September 13, the PBI submitted a charge sheet in court charging seven persons, including Babul Akter over the murder of his wife Mitu Akter.
Apart from Babul, the other accused in the case are Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, Anwar Hossain, Ehteshamul Haque Bhola, Shahjahan Mia, Kamrul Islam Shikder alias Mucha and Khairul Islam alias Kalu.
Among them, Mucha and Kalu are fugitives.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, off at Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at the Panchlaish police station against three unidentified men.
The case was transferred to the PBI in 2019 after Mitu's father, a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP's mishandling of the case.
On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison.
