Shahin murder: PBI gets 8th date to complete probe against ex-MP Awal

A Dhaka court today again asked PBI to submit by January 25, 2023 the probe report on further investigation into the case filed against former lawmaker MA Awal and 14 others over the killing of trader Md Shahinuddin in May last year.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tariqul Islam passed the order after Md Monir Hossain, an inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) and also the case's investigation officer, failed to submit any report by today.

With this, PBI took eight dates to complete further probe into the case.

On May 12 this year, another Dhaka court ordered PBI for further investigation after Aklima Begum, mother of the victim, filed a no-confidence petition, rejecting the probe report in the case.

After a probe for around nine months, Syed Iftekhar Hossain, investigation officer and an inspector of the Detective Branch of police, submitted a charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka on February 14, stating that the trader was killed upon the instruction of Awal, former lawmaker from Laxmipur-1 constituency.

Among the accused, Awal and 12 others are now on bail while two others are now in jail custody.

The murder was committed on May 16 last year in front of the victim's seven-year-old son in broad daylight in the capital's Pallabi area.