Riaz Ahmed, OC of Madhupur police station, told The Daily Star yesterday that he received the court order on Thursday.

Magistrate Dewan Mahmudul Haque passed the order after haring the 'naraji' petition, filed by Piren Slan's father against the probe report on the incident, court sources said.

Lawyer of the complainant and coordinator of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) Abdul Karim Miah said indigenous youth Piren Slan was killed when police and forest guards opened fire on a procession of indigenous people in Jalabada on January 3, 2004, brought out protesting construction of a boundary wall for a proposed Eco Park in Modhupur forests.

Piren's father Nezendra Nokrake filed a case with a Tangail court on January 14 the same year.

The court ordered a judicial enquiry into the incident. The probe report submitted by a magistrate on November 17, 2004 said police and forest guards were not responsible for Piren Slan murder.

Piren's father filed a 'naraji' petition on the same day. Hearing of the 'naraji' petition was deferred 16 times.

The then Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) in Tangail Abu Hanif Patwari, Assistant Forest Conservator (ACF) in Modhupur Zahurul Haque, Range Officer Kamrul Mujahid, Bit officers Amitav Basu and Abdur Rob, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Modhupur police station Zafar Alam Chowdhury, Havilder Idris Ali, and forests guards Golam Mostofa and Abdul Barek were accused in the case.