The CID has claimed that it was facing problems in making headway in the Narayanganj seven-murder investigation as the lower court had not provide them copies of the confessional statements of three former RAB officials.
The Criminal Investigation Department of police reportedly made the claim in its progress report which was recently submitted to the Attorney General’s Office. However, the report was brought back to the CID from the Attorney General’s Office yesterday, CID Additional Deputy Inspector general Mokhlesur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune.
Replying to a query on why the progress report was taken back, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said it was their internal matter, adding that he had advised the CID on how a report should be made.
“A report should not be made in a way which is not acceptable to the court. I instruct CID in this regard. It is not a matter of correction,” he said.
However, sources said the report was sent back as there was “inconsistency” in the report; however they did not disclose what the inconsistency was.
Mahbubey said he would place the CID progress report along with three other update reports today before the High Court bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore.
CID official Mokhlesur said they would be able to determine the course of their probe if they received the confessional statements.
“We interrogated the RAB trio. But we need the confessional statements to verify whether the RAB former officials gave information similar to the interrogation.”
On Monday, the seven-member government probe committee and the IGP submitted their progress reports to the Attorney General’s Office while on Sunday, RAB presented its departmental inspection report on progress regarding the Narayanganj seven-murder case.
Without revealing details, Mizanur Rahman Khan, a member of the seven-member committee, told the Dhaka Tribune that they had identified some suspects who might have been involved in committing the abductions and murders of seven people
He, however, said they have not mentioned the information in the progress report. The committee has sought four more weeks to dig out the motive behind the murder, said Mizan.
