The High Court has ordered Tangail 3 Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana and his brother Shahidur Rahman Khan to surrender before a lower couxrt in a murder case yesterday.
The accused will get two weeks to surrender, and law enforcers will not harass or arrest them during this period, the court said in its order. Shahidur Rahman is the mayor of Tangail Municipal Corporation.
The HC vacation bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Mohammad Ullah gave the order following a hearing of a petition filed jointly by the two brothers seeking anticipatory bail in the case.
The hearing was held on Sunday and Monday. The court passed the order in presence of the two brothers.
The state counsels said they will go to the upper court against the HC order.
The victim, Faruk Ahmed, was killed by unknown gunmen in front of his residence in College Para on Jan 18, 2013. His wife, Nahar Ahmed, filed a case with Tangail Model Police Station three days later, but she did not name anyone.
After filing the case, the plaintiff told reporters at a press conference that they had learned that Amanur, Shahidur and their two brothers were behind the murder.
The two other brothers are Jahidur Rahman Khan Kankan, chief of Tangail Chamber of Commerce, and Sanyat Khan Bappa is a central leader of the ruling AL’s student wing.
Police arrested two accused, Anisul Islam and Mohammad Ali, following the murder and they gave a confessional statement before the trial court under Section 164. They named Amanur and Shahidur as the planners of the murder.
After the High Court order, Deputy Attorney General Md Bashirullah told reporters: “The court did not grant them anticipatory bail. But after the order, they will enjoy a kind of anticipatory bail. We will challenge the High Court order.”
