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Vol. 5 Num 1075 Sun. June 10, 2007  
   
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Attack on UK Envoy
Mufti Hannan, 3 others charged


Charges have been pressed against Mufti Abdul Hannan of outlawed Harkatul Jihad and three others for the grenade attack on British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury in Sylhet in 2004.

Munshi Atiqur Rahman, ASP of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), yesterday submitted the charge sheet to the Sylhet cognizance court after a lengthy investigation into the incident that occurred at the shrine of Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) on May 21, 2004.

Three people died and more than 100, including the British envoy, were injured in the grenade attack. The dead were identified as Kamal, college student Zubayer and day labourer Habibur Rahman Hobi.

The three other charge-sheeted accused are Mofizur Rahman Ovi, Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul and Delwar Hossain Ripon. All the four accused are now in custody.

The existence of Mufti Munir named in the ejahar was not found while Ahsanullah Kajol died during the investigation, said the police report.

The Bangladesh-born British high commissioner came under grenade while he was coming out of the shrine's mosque after Juma prayers.

Scotland Yard, the world famous British intelligence agency, visited Sylhet twice to assist the local intelligence agencies in connection with the grenade attack. But it could not make any headway due to complexities of the incident, police said.

Within three months of Sylhet incident, 22 people died in grenade attacks on the Awami League rally in Dhaka on August 22, 2004. Former finance minister of Awami League Shah AMS Kibria was also killed in a grenade attack at Habiganj on January 27, 2005.

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Anwar Choudhury