Former NU VC murder: BNP leader Tripti lands in jail

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court sent former BNP lawmaker Mofiqul Hasan Tripti to jail in a case filed over the murder of Prof Aftab Ahmed, a Dhaka University teacher and former vice-chancellor of National University, in 2006.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Fahd Bin Amin Chowdhury passed the order on Thursday after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Subrata Kumar Saha, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Tripti before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.

The magistrate passed the order upon an elaborate hearing on the remand prayer and fixed August 13 for hearing on the remand prayer in presence of Tripti and ordered to send him to jail.

In the remand prayer, CID Inspector Subrata Kumar Saha told the court that one of the accused in the case arrested earlier gave a confessional statement where he revealed that the former lawmaker gave money for killing the victim.

“So Tripti needs to be remanded to find out vital clues about the killing,” he said.

On the other hand, Tripti’s lawyer Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder told the court that his client on May 29 last year got an ad-interim bail from the High Court that asked law enforcement agencies not to arrest Tripti without any arrest warrant from any court.

The arrest by the CID was a gross-violation of the HC order, he said.

CID officials picked Tripti up from his home at NAM Village in Dhaka’s Banani Model Town around 4:00pm on Wednesday.

Prof Aftab Ahmed died at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka in September 2006 after he was shot by assailants in his Fuller Road residence, adjacent to the British Council on the Dhaka University campus premises.

His family had filed a murder case later at Ramna police station, which was transferred to the Detective Branch first and then to CID.

Tripti, also a former office secretary of BNP’s central committee, was elected MP from the Jashore 1 constituency in the 1996 national election.


risingbd/Dhaka/Aug 9, 2018/Mamun Khan/AI