Ruling AL leader hacked to death

A leader of the Janata League, a front organisation of the ruling Awami League in Bangladesh, succumbed early yesterday to injuries sustained in a deadly attack the previous night, media reported.Sheikh Swadhin Monir, president of Fatulla Awami Janata League, was attacked near his house in Fatulla upazila of Narayanganj on Tuesday night, Dhaka Tribune reported.Monir’s nephew Ashraf Hossain said: “My uncle had a feud with local Swechchhasebok League leader Mir Hossain Miru relating to the business of cable connection in the area.”“Miru’s supporters stabbed my uncle and two aunts while they were returning home from a relative’s house on Tuesday night.”The injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where Monir succumbed to his injuries.DMCH police outpost sub-inspector Bachchu Mia said: “Monir died at the hospital around 6.00am today.”Meanwhile, a court in eastern Sylhet has city has police to conduct a fresh investigation into blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder and submit a supplementary charge-sheet before it.Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Court-3 Judge Haridash Kumar passed the order.Assistant public prosecutor Khokon Kumar Datta said the court rejected the charge-sheet submitted by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) due to errors in the charge-sheet as the CID had recommended exempting 11 people from the charge-sheet.On August 28, CID inspector Arman Ali submitted a charge-sheet against five people in the murder case.Of them, two are now in jail while the others absconding.The CID also recommended exempting 11 more people, including an alleged extremist blogger Shafiur Rahman Farabi, from the charge-sheet as no evidence of their involvement in the killing was found. On May 12, 2015 blogger Ananta was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in Sylhet city. Ananta was also a writer of the ‘Mukto-Mona blog’, founded by blogger Avijit Roy who was murdered on February 26, 2015, almost three months ago after he had come home from the USA.