Detective Branch (DB) of police submitted a charge-sheet against 15 people including former lawmaker of Lakshmipur-1 in a case filed over the murder of trader Md Shahinuddin in the capital's Pallabi on May 16 last year.

DB inspector and investigation officer of the case Syed Iftekhar Hossain filed the charge-sheet on February 13. 

A lower court concerned is scheduled to hold a hearing on the matter on February 17. 

The charge-sheeted accused are- MA Awal, Sumon Bepari, Titu, Kibria, Murad Hossain, Abu Taher, Ibrahim Sumon, Roki Talukder, Shafikul Islam, Tuhin Miah, Harun Ur Rashid, Tarikul Islam, Nur Mohammad, Hasan and Iqbal Hossain. Of the 15, apart from Sumon and Shafikul, all the other accused are behind the bars now and nine of them have already given confessional statements in the case. 

Shahinuddin was hacked to death by some miscreants at Mirpur-12 in front of his seven-year-old son. Later on May 17, his mother Aklima Begum filed the case with Pallabi Police Station. 

BDST: 1806 HRS, FEB 15, 2022
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