C T Online Desk: A Dhaka court today asked detectives to submit by September 4 the investigation report of the case filed over the attack on the convoy of former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat in August 2018.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zaki Al Farabi passed the order after Detective Branch of police failed to submit the report today.
Detectives have so far taken seven dates for completing further investigation into the case.
On December 28 last year, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shahidul Islam ordered further investigation into the case after Public Prosecutor (PP) Md Abdullah Abu submitted an application in this regard.
In the application, the PP said the complainant and five others had earlier given depositions before the court and three of them mentioned the name of Ishtiaque Mahmud, brother-in-law of complainant Badiul Alam Majumdar, as the culprit.
The investigation officer, however, did not include Ishtiaque’s name in the charge sheet and so, further investigation was needed to identify the real culprits behind the attack, he said.
On March 1 last year, the court framed charges against nine people in the case.
The accused are Firoz Mahmud, Naimul Hasan Rasel, Mir Amzad Hossain Akash, Sazu Islam, Razibul Islam Razu, Shahidul Alam Khan Kajol, Mozahid Azmi Tanna, Siam and Oli Ahmed Jony.
Shusashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar filed the case with Mohammadpur Police Station on August 10, 2018, following the attack.
On August 4, 2018, the nine accused, along with some 15 to 20 unidentified people, gathered near the Iqbal Road residence of Badiul Alam and chased Bernicat’s car, according to the probe report.
The accused then threw brick chips at it, the report added.
Later, the accused vandalised the house of the complainant and made death threats to his wife and son, according to the charge sheet.
