The Judicial Magistrate Court of Habiganj district has shifted the two cases in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder to the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court for trial.
Judge Nishat Sultana on Tuesday also set June 21 for further hearing in the cases.
On January 27, 2005, five people including Kibria were killed in a grenade attack after the former finance minister had been returning from a rally in Boidyer Bazar of Habiganj.
Local Awami League leader Abdul Majid Khan filed two cases with the Habiganj sadar police station – one for murder and the other under the explosives act.
Members of outlawed militant group Harkatul Jihad Al Islami, better known as Huji, and several local BNP leaders have been named in the supplementary charge sheets pressed in November last year.
Kibria’s family members expressed dissatisfaction with the supplementary charge sheet as several names including then Habiganj deputy commissioner Emdadul Haque were dropped from the list of accused by the investigator.
