Police have arrested the nephew of former railway minister Mujibul Haque in a case over killing eight bus passengers in an arson attack in 2015.
The ex-minister’s nephew Tofail Hossain, 50, son of late Ambar Ali of Busyara village, is a member of the executive committee of Chauddagram Thana Awami League.
Chauddagram Police Station Inspector (Investigation) Mohammad Abdullah said Tofail was arrested from his house in Basuara village of Sreepur Union of the upazila on Wednesday and later was sent to Cumilla court on Thursday morning.
After the fall of Awami League-led government on August 5, bus owner Abul Khair filed the case in the court of Cumilla Senior Judicial Magistrate Judge Abu Bakar Siddique on September 11.
The others accused in the case include --former railway minister and former lawmaker of Cumilla-11Mujibul Haque, former mayor of Chauddagram Mizanur Rahman, former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque, former director general of RAB Benazir Ahmed, former superintendent of police of Cumilla Tutul Chakraborty, the then officer-in-charge (OC) of Chauddagram Police Station Uttam Kumar Chakraborty.
In 2015, eight passengers were killed in a petrol bomb attack on a passenger bus in Chauddagram during blockade called by BNP and its alliances.
Following the incident, the then Sub-Inspector (SI) of Chauddagram Police Station Nuruzzaman Howladar filed a case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb Ameer Dr Syed Abdullah Md Taher and 64 others.
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