Online Desk: Charges against former superintendent of police Babul Akhtar and three others in Digital Security Act (DSA) case have been submitted. Recently, Dhanmondi police pressed the charges before a Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court, the police station OC Ekram Ali Miah confirmed the matter.

According to the court sources, the charges were pressed on April 9. The three other accused are Babul’s father Md Abdul Wadud Miah, brother Habibur Rahman and journalist Iliyas Hossain. Banaj Kumar Majumder, chief of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), filed the case with Dhanmondi Police Station on September 27 last year.

On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul’s wife Mitu at Chattogram port city’s GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akter, 7, at the pickup spot for his school bus. Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men. The case was transferred to the Police Bureau Investigation (PBI) in 2019 after Mitu’s father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP’s mishandling of the case.

On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison. Babul Akhter also filed a no-confidence petition against the PBI report on October 14, 2021.

On November 3 last year, a Chittagong Court rejected the final report of PBI in the murder case and ordered it to conduct further investigation.