Former BNP lawmaker Shamsul Alam Pramanik and 12 others have been sued for extortion and patronising militants.

Poultry trader Azizu) Alam of Dashpara village in Manda upazila of the district filed the case with the cognisance court here on July 7 this year. The judge ordered investigation into the case. After necessary investigation, police on Sunday night accepted the case as regular one.

Azizul Islam alleged that Pramanik and his associates realised Tk 50,000 in toll from him on

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behalf of JMB second in command Siddiqui Islam alias Bangla Bhai on February 28,2004.

Of the accused, lecturer Rafiqul Islam of Baghmara upazila, principal Mostafizur Rahman and Hafez Mizanur Rahman have already been jailed for 31 years in another case with former post and telecommunications minister Aminul Haq for patronising militants.