C T Online Desk: A Chattogram court on Monday (Oct 10) accepted the chargesheet against former Chattogram Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter and six others in a case filed over the killing of Babul’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Halim accepted the chargesheet.

Ex-SP Babul Akter filed a no-confidence (naraji) petition against the chargesheet, said additional police commissioner Quamrul Islam, but the court rejected it.

The others accused in the case are—Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, Anwar Hossain, Ehteshamul Haque Bhola, Shahjahan Mia, Quamrul Islam Shikdar alias Musa and Khairul Islam alias Kalu. Of them, Musa and Kalu remain ‘absconding’ according to police.

But Musa’s wife has long maintained that he was picked up by police within weeks of the Mitu killing.

On September 13, the Police Bureau of investigation (PBI) pressed the charges against Babul Akter and six others in a case filed over the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.

Abu Zafar Md Omar Faruk, inspector of PBI and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the chargesheet to the prosecution unit of the Chattogram court.

Mitu was stabbed and shot dead on June 5, 2016, when she was on the way to her son’s school-bus stop at GEC intersection in Chattogram city.

Her husband the then Police Headquarters’ SP Babul Akhter filed a murder case with Panclaish Police Station in the port city in this connection.

After staging various dramas including questioning under the custody of Detective Branch, Babul Akhter was relieved of service in August of that year. Babul Akhter is now in jail.

In January 2020, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) was assigned to investigate the case.

On 11 May of that year, the PBI interrogated Babul in custody and found his involvement in the case. It submitted a 575-page final report of the case to the court on 12 May.

On the same day, Mitu’s father Mosharraf Hossain filed a murder case with Panchlaish Police Station accusing eight people, including Babul.

The PBI grilled Babul in remand after showing him arrested in the case. He has remained in their custody since 17 May last year.