A metropolitan magistrate's court on Monday accepted charge sheet in journalist Manik Saha murder case.

The charge sheet against 12 accused in the case was submitted on June 20 to the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate Shafina Begum by Officer-in-charge of Khulna Police Station Mosharraf Hossain.

The accused are Sumon, Ali Akbar, Akram Hossain alias Bomaru Akram, Bulbul Hossain, Abdus Sattar alias Disco Sattar, Shawkat Hossain alias Saka, BDR Altaf, Mahfuz alias Nasim, Sarwar alias Soro, Billal, Omar Faruque alias Kachi and Mitul.

Another accused, outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party

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(PBCP-ML) leader Abdur Rashid Shaikh alias Tapu, has been excluded from the charge sheet as he was killed last month in a crossfire with police after being arrested in Dhaka.

Four of the accused now in jail are Sumon, Ali Akbar, Bomaru Akram and Bulbul.

Khulna police filed two cases, one for murder of the journalist and the other under Explosives Act, on January 19. Charge sheet in the case under Explosives Act was submitted on March 19, accusing 13 people.

Manik Saha, Khulna correspondent of The New Age and a stringer for BBC, was killed in a bomb attack on January 15 this year near Khulna Press Club. The PBCP (Janajuddha) claimed responsibility for the murder.