A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against five Ansarullah Bangla Team members in a case filed over the murder of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman in the capital on March 30.
After examining the case diary and all relevant documents, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lutfar Rahman Shishir accepted the charge sheet in the murder case.
The court also issued arrest warrants against two accused fugitives following an appeal by the investigation officer (IO) of the case.
Sub-Inspector Altaf Hossain, General Recording Officer of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) court, said: “The court has also asked police to submit a report upon executing the arrest warrant by October 29 in the case.”
On September 2, DB Inspector Moshiur Rahman, the IO of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Dhaka CMM court.
The five charge-sheeted are Zikrullah alias Hasan, Ariful Islam alias Mushfiq, Saiful Islam alias Mansur, Akram Hossain Hasib alias Abdullah and Maulana Junayed alias Taher.
Abdullah, known as “Boro Bhai” among Ansarullah Bangla Team members, and Taher are on the run while the three others accused are in jail.
Abdullah masterminded the murder, trained the killers for three months and provided them with arms, according to the charge sheet.
In the charge sheet, the IO said that the accused at first had planned to kill Oyasiqur after meeting at Ariful’s residence at Mirpur-11 of the capital on December 15, 2014.
The killers also gathered at a house in South Kajla of Jatrabari some days before the murder.
The accused had been enraged by Oyasiqur’s comments on Facebook and other social networking sites on March 16-17 this year, and they took part in the murder on March 30, said the charge sheet.
On that day, Zikurullah and Ariful, the two madrasa students wielding cleavers, were caught by locals while fleeing after they had hacked Oyasiqur to death at Begunbari in Tejgaon Industrial Area in the capital.
