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5 party men planned murder of Khulna AL leader Manjurul Imam

His son names plotters in Khulna court

Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Five influential leaders of Awami League (AL) were involved in the plan for murder of Khulna city president of the party advocate Manjurul Imam.
Abdullah Harun Rumi, eldest son of the slain AL leader and a prosecution witness of the case, said this while submitting deposition during trial of the murder case in Khulna Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday.
Rumi named the five planners of the murder before Judge ?\bdus Salam Shikder of Speedy Trial Tribunal.
The judge recorded his statement at a jam-packed courtroom and fixed March 2 as the next date for hearing of prosecution witnesses.
The planners of the murder, as named by Rumi, are General Secretary of Khulna City Awami
League Mizanur Rahman Mizan, General Secretary of Khulna district unit and ex-whip of Jatiya Sangsad Mostafa Rahidi Shuja, his younger brother Mozaffar Rashidi Doja, former mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Kazi Aminul Huq and KCC commissioner elected from Ward No 23 Imam Hasan Chowdhury
Moina.
The five AL leaders had planned to kill his father following intra-party squabbles, Rumi told the court as one of the prosecution witnesses of the case.
Nineteen out of 60 prosecutionwitnesses have so far submitted deposition during trial of this case.
Rumi also named before the court eight other leaders of the party as witnesses of the murder
They are present President of Khulna City AL and former lawmaker Talukder Abdul Khaleque, ex-lawmaker Begum Mannujan Sufian, General Secretary of Bagerhat district AL and freedom fighter Kamruzzaman Tuku, president of Khulna Sadar thana AL and Ward Commissioner Ajmol Ahmed Tapan, president of Sondanga upazila unit Abul Kalam Azad, Sramik League
leader Milon, ex-ward commissioner Birendra Nath Ghosh and Jubo League leader Sohel.
Abdullah Harun Rumi told tire court that real killers of his father and the planners and financiers behind the incident have been left out of the charge sheet.
"My father was quite aware of the conspiracy hatched by party leaders to murder him. The party leaders I have named must be quizzed to know the fact behind tlie murder as they were planners and financiers,” Rumi told the court.
Ali the four charge-sheeted accused Ganesh, Ripon, Shukur and Shahadat were present in the
Advocate Manjurul Imam, advocate Bijon Bihari and rickshaw-puller Salam were killed in a bomb attack on August 25 night in 2003 in front of Manjurul's residence in Khulna city.