CHATTOGRAM, May 12, 2021 (BSS) – A court here granted five day remand to interrogate former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter over his alleged involvement with the murder of his wife Mahmuda Akter Mitu.
Earlier, Mitu’s father, former police inspector Mosharraf Hossain, filed a new case against Babul and seven others with Panchlaish police station on Wednesday over his daughter’s killing after the PBI said they had found involvement of Babul Akter with the killing.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sarowar Jahan passed the order after Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) produced Babul before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.
Following the hearing, the magistrate granted him five day remand, Advocate Arifur Rahman, lawyer of Babul Akter, told journalists.
The court asked PBI to submit its probe report before the court within 10 days, he added.
Mitu was stabbed and shot dead when she was walking with her son to his school bus stop in city’s GEC crossing on June 5, 2016.
Babul himself filed a murder case against three unknown suspects with Panchlaish police station in the city after the incident.
Meanwhile, PBI submitted final report of the case filed by Babul Akter in connection with the murder of Mitu on Wednesday, said Kazi Shahabuddin Ahmed, assistant commissioner (prosecution) of Chattogram Metropolitan police.
Investigating officer of the case PBI Inspector Santosh Kumar Chakma said that the final report of the case has been given as Babul Akter was involved in the murder of his wife.