Momin Murder
Family rejects charge sheet as OC Rafique's name dropped
Staff Correspondent
Family members of murdered Kamrul Islam Momin yesterday rejected the charge sheet as police dropped the names of prime suspect OC AKM Rafiqul Islam and 20 others who were accused in the first information report (FIR). Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed the charges against seven people in the murder case in a Dhaka court on May 13 after one year and eight months of investigation. Addressing a press conference at the Crime Reporters' Association in the city, Momin's father Abdur Razzak urged the authorities concerned not to accept the charge sheet and demanded more investigation into the case by any agency other than CID. Momin, 18, was killed by a gang of criminals in front of his house at Kafrul when he was going to college on September 13, 2005. Following the incident, Razzak filed a murder case with Kafrul Police Station accusing OC Rafiq and 25 others. Rafiq was sent to jail on October 16, 2005 when he surrendered to a Dhaka court seeking ad interim bail in connection with the killing. Since then, he has been in jail custody. Family sources told The Daily Star that Rafiq's brother-in-law Shamol had threatened them recently saying, "When Rafiq will come out of the jail, we will throw you all out of your house."
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Shamsul Islam, elder brother of slain college student Kamrul Islam Momin, speaks at a press conference in the city yesterday demanding punishment to the killers of Momin. PHOTO: Focus Bangla |
