Charge framed against 6 over blogger Ananta murder
Sylhet: A court here on Tuesday framed charges against six people in a case filed over the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.
Sylhet Metropolitan Session Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha passed the order, public prosecutor Mafur Ali told reporters.
On May 9, the same court accepted the charge sheet submitted by police against the six accused in the case.
The charge sheeted are -- Abul Hossain, 25; Foysal Ahmed, 27; Harunur Rashid, 25; Mannan Yahiya alias Mannan Rahi alias AB Mannan Yahia alias Ibne Moin, 24; Abul Khayer Rashid Ahmed, 24 and Shafiur Rahman Farabi, 30.
Of the six accused, Mannan Rahi, Rashid Ahmed and Farabi are in the jail while the others remained fugitive.
On January 18 last, Arman Ali, Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), submitted the supplementary charge sheet against six accused and exempted 10 others, including journalist Idris, from the case.
Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Manch, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on May 12, 2015.
On the following day (May 13), Ratneshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta, filed a case against four people with the Airport Police Station.
Ananta Bijoy Das was also a writer at 'Mukto-Mona blog', founded by blogger Avijit Roy who was murdered on February 26, 2016.