PBI files case against Elias, Babul

The Police Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against journalist Elias Hossain and former police superintendent Babul Akter.

Babul Akter's father Md Abdul Wadud Mia, 72, and brother Md Habibur Rahman, 45, were also named in the lawsuit.

PBI chief Banaj Kumar Majumdar lodged the case with Dhanmondi Police Station, Dhaka under the Digital Security Act and Special Power Act, he himself confirmed to Jago News on Tuesday night.

He said the aforesaid four have been accused of providing and spreading false information in the Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case, communal incitement, and damaging images of the PBI, and Bangladesh.

Expatriate journalist Elias recently published a video on YouTube over the investigation of the Mitu murder case where he alleged Banaj Kumar tortured Babul Akter in remand.

In the video, he also alleged the PBI chief intentionally made the former SP accused in the case and staged false witnesses. 

After the publication of the video, Babul Akter filed a case appeal against six police officials, including Banaj Kumar, but court rejected the petition.

On June 5, 2016, Mahmuda Khanam Mitu was shot and stabbed to death on the way to pick up her son from a school bus on OR Nizam Road in Chattogram city.

Later, her husband Babul Akter lodged a case against unidentified people with the Panchlaish Police Station in Chattogram in this connection. 

Subsequently, PBI claimed that they found Babul's involvement in the case.

On May 12 last year, Mitu's father former police inspector Mosharraf Hossain filed a case against eight people, including Babul, over the murder.

On that day, he was shown arrested by PBI and sent to jail following a court order.

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