A Habiganj court has served a show-cause notice to the officer-in-charge (OC) of Baniachong Police Station for failure to give information about a murder case in time.

Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Shampa Jahan gave the notice to the OC Mozammel Haque, on Tuesday.

The court also instructed him to provide necessary information within three days, said advocate Hafiz Uddin at the court.

According to the prosecution, police recovered the body of Ali Hossain from Ekram village in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj on February 27 and the victim's brother Sundor Ali filed a case with Baniachong Police Station, accusing a few people including the victim's wife Ranu Begum.

Later, Ranu filed another case with the Habiganj court in this connection. After filing of the case, the judge ordered the Baniachong OC to report within seven working days whether a case for the incident has been filed there.

But the OC did not report within the time and he was given three more days for the purpose. The OC again failed and the judge served a show cause notice to him.

OC Mozammel Haque said, “On March 18, I signed the report and it was sent to the court inspector on March 19. If the judge did not get the report, that responsibility is not mine.”

Ohidur Rahman, inspector of the court, said he did not know about the matter.