HC issues rule over bail for MP Rana

Staff Correspondent: The High Court (HC) has issued a rule to the authority concern asking as to why the Tangail-3 ruling party lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana would not be granted bail in freedom fighter and Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed murder case.

A bench comprising of Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal and Justice Md Khasruzzaman passed the order on Wednesday.

Faruk Ahmed, former publicity secretary of Tangail district unit AL, was found shot dead near his College Para house in Tangail town on the night of January 18, 2013.

A charge sheet in the case, submitted by the Detective Branch of police in Tangail in February this year, says Amanur and his family opposed Faruk's vying for the post of Tangail district unit AL general secretary in 2012.

Amanur's brother Shahidur Rahman Khan Mukti was a contestant for the post.

Failing to persuade Faruk to quit the race, Amanur and his brothers assigned their accomplices to kill him, it says.

On September 18, 2016, a Tangail court sent Rana, the lawmaker from Tangail-3 (Ghatail) constituency, to jail after rejecting his bail petition in the case.

He was elected uncontested in the January 5 national election in 2014. He won a by-election in 2012 from the same constituency.

 
risingbd/Dhaka/Jan 18, 2017/Mahedi/A K Azad