The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Tuesday pressed charges against former Chattogram superintendent of police (SP) Babul Akter and six others in a case filed over the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.
Abu Zafar Md Omar Faruk, inspector of PBI and also the investigating officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the prosecution unit of the Chattogram court.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
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Soon after the incident, Babul filed a murder case with Panchlaish police station under the Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) against three unidentified men.
The case was transferred to the PBI in 2019 after Mitu's father, also a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP's mishandling of the case.
On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison.
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Babul also filed a no-confidence petition against the PBI report on October 14, 2021.
On November 3 last year, a Chattogram court rejected the PBI’s final report in the murder case and ordered it to conduct further investigation.
