Today Cox’s Bazar District and Sessions Judge’s Court Public Counsel (Public Prosecutor) and the state lawyer Faridul Alam said the main judicial proceedings of Muhibullah’s murder case will begin from tomorrow (October 11, Tuesday), according to Bangla daily star report.
The testimony will be held in the court of Senior District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Ismail of Cox’s Bazar.
Muhibullah, chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), who has played a strong role in the repatriation of displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar to Bangladesh, was assassinated on the night of 29 September last year. His death was widely discussed at home and abroad.
According to court sources, the day after the murder, Muhibullah’s younger brother Habibullah filed a murder case at Ukhia police station. After 8 and a half months of investigation, Gazi Salah Uddin the investigating officer of the case, Ukhia Police Station filed a charge sheet in the court accusing 29 people. The investigating officer requested to exempt 7 people from the case stating that the names and addresses of 7 people were not found.
After hearing and framing charges against 29 accused on last September 11, the court fixed October 11 as the next day of the case to take the testimony of the witnesses. For which, plaintiff including witnesses of the case are summoned by the court.
Despite some of the accused arrested in the case have stated in the court under Section 164 that Muhibullah was killed on the orders of the alleged ARSA Commander Ata Ullah and even the issue of Ata Ullah’s involvement in the investigation of law enforcement and intelligence agencies has come up, the investigating officer of the case, discharged Ata Ullah from the case stating his name and address were not found in the charge sheet, according to report.
