Former superintendent of police (SP) Babul Akhtar and his father Md Abdul Wadud Miah were acquitted of a case filed by Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) chief Banaj Kumar Majumder under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
Meanwhile, the court issued an arrest warrant against journalist Iliyas Hossain, another accused in the case, as he is absconding.
The court took the charges against Iliyas Hossain and Babul Akhtar's brother Md Habibur Rahman Labu into cognisance.
Judge AM Zulfiqar Hayat of Dhaka Cyber Tribunal on Tuesday passed the order and fixed August 31 for indictment hearing against the accused in the case.
State lawyer Nazrul Islam Shamim confirmed this matter, reports banglanews24.com.
Banaj Kumar Majumder filed the case under DSA and special powers act with Dhanmandi Police Station on September 27, 2022.
The PBI Chief in his case brought allegations of spreading false and untrue information to tarnish his and the police unit's image against the four.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at Chattogram port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akter, 7, at the pickup spot for his school bus.
Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men.
The case was transferred to the Police Bureau Investigation (PBI) in 2019 after Mitu's father, himself 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 Akter in another case filed by Mitu's father and since then he has been in prison.
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