The charge sheet of a murder case was submitted yesterday accusing five persons, including Hefazat-e-Islam Senior Nayeb-E-Ameer Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury.
Sub-InspectorMd Shah Alam of Khulshi police station, who is also the investigating officer of the case, submitted the eight-page charge sheet before the General Registry Office of Chittagong Metropolitan Court in the morning, naming 16 prosecution witnesses’ names.
The accused are Mufti Izharul, his son and Hefazat-e-Islam Training Secretary Harun and their accomplices and madrasa staff Junaied, Habibur Rahman and Mohammad Ishak, said Md Rezaul Masud, additional deputy commissioner (prosecution) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
Excepting Mufti Izharul, all the other accused are behind bars.
The IO in the charge sheet said Mufti Izharul and his son Harun patronised explosives production and the other three accused assisted in the offence.
Earlier, on October 7, 2013, a deadly blast at a hostel room in Jamiatul Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa in Lalkhan Bazar of the port city killed three persons including two students of the madrasa.
Mufti Izharul is the founding director of the madrasa.
Later, police carried out a search at the madrasa and found some explosives and huge quantities of grenade-making materials.
Three cases – one for murder, one for possessing explosives and the other for possession of acid – were lodged with Khulshi police station.
