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Lokman Murder

Minister Raju denies his family's link

Visits Narsingdi after 10 months amid tight security

Our Correspondent, Narsingdi
Ten months into the killing of popular Narsingdi municipal mayor Lokman Hossain, Employment Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju yesterday visited his constituency for the first time amid heavy police security and protests from locals.
Raju's brother Salauddin Ahmed Bacchu was the number one accused in the case filed Lokman's brother and locals all along saw Raju's hand in the murder.
However, reaching his Narsingdi-5 constituency, Raju at a rally yesterday termed the allegation false.
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"A false case has been filed against my family. This is totally conspiratorial. A force is working form behind so that we cannot hold the trial of the war criminals," he claimed.
Addressing the rally after inaugurating Narsingdi district Awami League office, he vowed to make Narsingdi free from crime. A large number of law enforcers were presentatthetime.
Lokman Sangram Parishad, a platform formed after Lokman's death, earlier called a two-day hartal from yesterday in the district protesting police action on the parishad activists on Friday when at least 50 people were injured in a clash between supporters of the slain mayorand police.
After peacefiil observance of yesterday's hartal, the parishad called off today's hartal considering public sufferings.
Friday's clash ensued as the law enforcers foiled a procession led by Mayor Kamruzzaman, younger brother of Lokman, to protest Raju's programme scheduled foryesterday.
Lokman, a two-time gold medallist as best mayor, also general secretary of the city AL, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, hours after masked assailants had shot him in Narsingdi city party office on the night of November 1 last year.
Two days later, Kamruzzaman filed a murder case against Raju's brother Salauddin and 13 others.
According to the first in formation report, Salauddin and nine other accused plotted the murder while four others executed the plan.
A Narsingdi court on July 1 this year accepted the charge sheet that cleared 11 people, including Salauddin, of the murdercharge.
Lokman's family rejected the charge sheet and submitted a no-confidence petition.
But Chief Judicial Magistrate Nitai Chandra Saha on July 25 accepted the charge sheet, rejecting the no-