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Another case has been filed against 79 people, including Suchinta Foundation leader Jinnat Sohana Chowdhry, over clashes among law enforcers, followers of Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das and others on Chattogram court premises recently that left a lawyer dead.
One Mohammad Ullah Chowdhury filed the case on Wednesday morning, said Kotwali police station’s Officer-in-Charge Abdul Karim.
With this, a total of six cases have so far been filed in this connection. In the latest case, twenty nine people were named and 40 to 50 were unidentified ones, the OC said.
Some of them were identified as former Chittagong City Corporation’s ward councillors Jahar Lal Hazari, Shaibal Das Suman and city unit of Mohila Jubo League leader Jinnat, banned Chhatra League leaders Shuvo Kanti Das, Mithun, Bijoy and Samir Kanti Dey.
According to the case statement, the accused financed behind the attack that left lawyer Saiful Islam Alif dead and several others injured. Among the other cases, slain Saiful’s father and brother filed two separate murder cases and police lodged three.
On November 26, lawyer Saiful Islam Alif was hacked to death amid clashes among law enforcers, agitated protestors, and supporters of Chinmoy Krishna following the denial of his bail petition in a sedition case.
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