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Nusrat murder case charge-sheet Wednesday

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Update: 2019-05-28 13:22:13
Nusrat murder case charge-sheet Wednesday

DHAKA: Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) will press charges against 16 people in the case filed over killing Feni madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi by setting her on fire on Wednesday (May 29).
 
Banaj Kumar Mazumder, deputy inspector general (DIG) of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), disclosed the information at a press conference at PBI office in capital’s Dhanmondi on Tuesday (May 28). 

On the basis of the complaint, we sought the death penalty for each accused.   

In the 772-page charge sheet, the role of each accused in the incident is given in detail.

Ninety-two witnesses have been included in the final charge-sheet. 

Of the 16 accused, 12 have already given their confessional statement before magistrate, he said. 

The accused are Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa’s ex-principal Siraj Ud Doula, Awami League leader Ruhul Amin, Nur Uddin, Shahdat Hossain Shamim, Maksud Alam alias Moksud councilor, Saifur Rahman Mohammad Jobayer, Jabed Hossain alias Sakhwat Hossain Jaber, Hafez Abdul Kader, Absar Uddin, Kamrun Nahar Moni, Umme Sultana Popy alias Tuhin alias Champa/Shampa, Abdur Rahim Sharif, Eftekhar Uddin Rana, Imran Hossain alias Mamun, Mohammad Shamim and Mohiuddin Shakil.

Nusrat Jahan Rafi, the madrasha girl from Feni’s Sonagazi upazila, who was set on fire on April 6, succumbed to her burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Wednesday (April 10) night.

Nusrat was kept on life support at DMCH since April 8.

On April 6, the student went to the exam center at Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrasa. Later, some students, who are loyal to the principal of the madrasa, took her to the roof and set fire on her by four people wearing burqa, veil and gloves.

At her screaming, locals, students and teachers took her to hospital.

Victim’s elder brother field a case with Sonagazi model police station over the incident.

The heinous incident occurred days after her mother on March 28 filed a case against the madrasa principal SM Siraj-ud-Doula on charge of harassing the girl sexually on March 27.

BDST: 1310 HRS, MAY 28, 2019
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