Shawdesh Desk:

A Dhaka court framed charges against 7 leaders and activists of BNP, including its senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in police constable Shamim murder case in 2015.

Judge (in-charge) Bilkis Akter of Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court-4 scrapped the dismissal plea from the defence and passed the order initiating the trial officially.

The other accused in the case are- BNP joint secretary general Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel, former Dhaka College Chhatra Dal president Anowar Hossain Tipu alias Abbas and BNP activists- Abdus Sattar, Shah Alam, and Md Rafiq.

According to the charge sheet, on January 17 in 2015, Tipu hurled several cocktails and two petrol bombs at a bus carrying police personnel, injuring more than12 police officers.

Police Sub-Inspector Shafiqul Islam filed a violence case the next day with Ramna Thana in this connection.

19 days later, Shamim Miah, a police constable who suffered severe burns and splinter injuries that day, died while undergoing treatment at a city hospital.

Later, on July 14 in 2016, CID Police Inspector Md Ali Akkas pressed charge sheet against 7 in a murder case.