MP Amanur sent to jail on surrender

A Tangail court has sent Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana to jail after he surrendered before it in freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.

Amanur, AL lawmaker from Tangail-3 constituency, surrendered before the court around 10:30am on Sunday and filed a bail petition.

After a hearing in this regard, Additional District and Session’s Judge Abul Mansur Miah passed the order.


More than a dozen lawyers, including Advocate Abdul Baki Mia and Faikuzzaman Nazib, moved for Amanur while Additional Public Prosecutor Monirul Islam Khan defended the state.

On April 6, a court issued a warrant for the arrest of the 10 accused in the Awami League leader Faruk murder case after accepting the charge sheet submitted on February 3 last by Inspector Golam Mahfizur Rahman.


Of the 14 charge-sheeted accused, five, including Amanur, are now behind the bars while the rest nine are now on the run.

Those absconding include Amanur’s brothers Sahidur Rahman Khan Mukti, former mayor of Tangail municipality, and Jahidur Rahman Khan Kakon, a business leader of Tangail, and Saniyat Khan Bappa, former vice-president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).

Among the arrestees, Aminul Islam Raja and Mohammad Ali made their confessional statements to law enforcers.

Faruk Ahmed, an AL senior leader and also a freedom fighter, was gunned down in the district town on January 18, 2013.

With inputs from UNB