Anisul, Qamrul, 4 others shown arrested in Kafrul killing case

A Dhaka court has granted applications to show six people including former food minister Advocate Qamrul Islam and former law minister Anisul Huq arrested in a case filed over the murder of trader Atiqul Islam in the city’s Kafrul area during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Partho Bhadra passed the order on Monday (March 3) as Sub-Inspector (SI) of Kafrul Police Station Md Jewel Islam, also the investigation officer of the case, produced the six before the court and pleaded to show them arrested in the case. The court later sent them back to the jail.

The four other accused are Salman F Rahman, former private industry affairs adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former state minister for industries Kamal Ahmed Majumder, former inspectors general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and AKM Shahidul Haque.

Atiqul Islam was shot and killed behind the BRTA office in Kafrul area in the afternoon of July 19. The case was filed in this connection on December 23 against 40 people including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.