NARAYANGANJ: Detectives on Wednesday pressed charges against 35 persons, including Rapid Action Battalion officers Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, Arif Hossain and SM Masud Rana and city councillor Nur Hossain, in two cases filed over Narayanganj 7-Murder incident. 

The charge-sheet was submitted to court of the senior judicial magistrate Chandni Rupam.

One of the chief investigators Mamunur Rashid Mandal, also an officer-in-charge of Detective Branch, confirmed the submission of 216-page charge-sheet. The court fixed 11 May as the next date for hearing.

Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam, his friend Moniruzzaman Swapan, Tajul Islam, Liton and driver Jahangir Alam and advocate Chandan Kumar Sarkar and his car driver Ibrahim went missing on 27 April 2014. They were found dead on the River Shitalakshya on 30 April and 1 May.

Following the incident, Nazrul Islam’s widow Selina Islam Beauty and Chandan Sarkar’s son-in-law Bijoy Kumar Pal filed two different cases with the Fatullah police.

Eighteen RAB officials, who were named in the charge-sheet, including former RAB 11 officers Lieutenant Colonel Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, Major Arif Hossain and Lieutenant Commander SM Masud Rana, have already confessed their involvement in the killing.

Police have arrested 31 suspects, but the prime accused Nur Hossain is yet to be held. He fled Bangladesh just after the killing and later Indian police arrested him. He is now in an Indian custody.