Case filed against AL leader, 32 others

A case has been filed against 33 people including local Awami League leader Abul Kashem Zihadi in connection with the murders of former Juba League leader Abdullah Al Noman and former Chhatra League leader Rakib Imam.

Mahfuzur Rahman, local UP chairman and elder brother of one of the deceased, filed the case with Chandraganj Thana on Wednesday midnight.

In the case, he mentioned names of 18 persons and 15 unidentified people.

The murders took place around 9.45pm on Tuesday in Poddar Bazar area under Bashikpur union in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila.

The deceased are Abdullah Al Noman, a former general secretary of the district unit of Juba League and son of late Abul Kashem, and Rakib Imam, an organising secretary of the district unit of BCL, son of Rafik Ullah and an entrepreneur of UP digital center. According to locals and police, a group of miscreants opened fire on the duo in the Poddar Bazar area, leav-ing them critically injured.