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| Abdul Khaleque Mondal |
Investigation authorities have submitted charge sheet against five people including former Jamaat lawmaker Maulana Abdul Khaleque Mondal in sensational China Khatun murder case.
Khaleque Mondal has been charge-sheeted for provoking the complainant to file the sensational murder case with Sadar Police Station accusing Nazrul Islam concealing the actual motives and accused to save the culprits.
Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sukharanjan Samaddar of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted the charge sheet against the five people before Women and Children Repression Prevention Court at Satkhira on Monday.
The other accused in the case are -- victim China Khatun's husband Azad Hossain, her father-in-law Abdul Aziz, brother-in-law Rafiqul Islam and neighbour Nazrul Islam of village Machhkhola in Sadar upazila.
China Khatun, 18, daughter of Ahmad Ali of village Nagarghata in Tala upazila was married with Azad Hossain, son of Abdul Aziz of Machhkhola village in Sadar upazila, in 2001, court sources said.
Local people found the body of China, in Sadar upazila lying on the floor of her house on February 16 night in 2002. She had been pregnant for four months at that time.
The next day, China's father Ahmad Ali filed an allegation with Sadar Police Station stating that his daughter was killed and police arrested the victim's father-in-law Abdul Aziz.
But after ten days of the incident, the victim's mother-in-law Mariam Begum submitted an allegation with the same police station against Nazrul Islam.
She also submitted a recommendation from former Jamaat lawmaker Maulana Abdul Khaleque Mondal who asked the Sadar Police Station authorities to take action against the culprit.
The complainant alleged that Nazrul entered into her daughter-in law's room and killed her after rape on February 16 night.
As per written recommendation of former Jamaat lawmaker, the then officer in charge of Sadar Police Station Ruhul Islam Mallik filed a murder case accusing Nazrul Islam, son of the victim's husband's sister, under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.
Sub-inspector Golam Mostafa was made investigation officer (IO) and he submitted charge sheet against Nazrul Islam.
Judge Motazidur Rahman of the District Women and Children Repression Preventive Court, who tried the case, on July 30 last year ordered reinvestigation into the case as the court found that former Jamaat lawmaker Khaleque Mondal mishandled the case to divert its merit.
The physicians who conducted the post-mortem reported that they did not find any signs of rape, the court order said.
"It is clear to the court that complainant Mariam Begum filed the case as per suggestions by the former Jamaat lawmaker. The former lawmaker, complainant Mriam Begum, the victim's father-in-law Abdul Aziz and husband Azad tried to conceal the facts in a pre-planned way," it added.
"It is necessary to take legal action against those who tried to divert the case merit concealing actual motive and accused in the case," it said, adding, "The victim's parents claimed before the court that China Khatun was killed by her husband, father in law and mother in law."
