Chetona Barta Desk: A Chattogram court on Wednesday rejected the bail petition filed by the lawyer of former police officer Babul Akter, prime accused in his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case.
The court of Metropolitan Session Judge Sheikh Ashfaqur Rahman passed the order, said Chattogram metropolitan public prosecutor Md Fakhruddin Chowdhury.
Mahmuda Khanam Mitu. |
The lawyer said that Babul’s lawyer filed a petition seeking bail in the murder case but the court rejected the petition.
Babul’s lawyer Muhammad Ajmul Huda told New Age that they would go for the next step for securing bail after discussing it with Babul’s family.
Earlier on August 10, a Chattogram metropolitan magistrate court rejected Babul Akter’s bail petition filed by his lawyer.
Babul Akter was in Chattogram central jail from May 12 in the case filed over the murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016. On May 29, Babul was transferred to Feni jail from Chattogram.
Mitu was stabbed and shot to death on June 5, 2016 when she was walking her son to his school bus stop at the Port City’s GEC Intersection.
Former police officer Babul Akter filed a case in 2016 after the murder. PBI submitted final report on May 12 in the case filed by Babul Akter in 2016 after the murder as the investigators found ‘Babul Akter’s involvement in Mitu murder’ after five years of investigation.
Babul Akter turned into as the prime accused from the plaintiff in wife’s murder case as Mitu’s father Mosharaf Hossain filed a fresh case on May 12, 2021 over the murder.
The other accused in the case are Kamrul Islam Sikdar alias Musa, 40, Ehteshamul Hoque alias Haniful ]Hoque alias Bhola, 41, Md Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, 27, Md Anwar Hossain, 28, Md Khairul Islam alias Kalu, 28, Md Saidul Islam Sikder alias Saku, 45, and Shahjahan Mia, 28.