Mitu was killed for seeing Babul in an objectionable state

Dhaka: Former Superintendent of Police Babul Akhtar boarded a hotel in Cox’s Bazar with his wife Mahmuda Khanam alias Mitu. An Indian woman came into another room next to it. Mitu saw Babul twice in a row in an objectionable state with that woman. And that is why he was subjected to mental torture and later planned murder.

On Tuesday (April 23), Chittagong’s third additional metropolitan session judge Md. Mitu’s mother Shaheda Mosharraf gave this information in Jasim Uddin’s court testimony.

Shaheda Musharraf said, on April 26, 2002, my eldest daughter Mahmuda Khanam Mitu got married to Babul Akhtar. Babul Akter was unemployed at that time. After marriage, their relationship was not so good from the very beginning, it was rough. Later joined the police. Then transferred as SP (Additional Superintendent of Police) to Cox’s Bazar. There, Babul fell in love with a woman of Indian origin.

He also said that one day Babul Akhtar took Mitu to a hotel in Cox’s Bazar. The woman also got up in the next room. In that woman’s room, Babul Akhtar was seen in an offensive state by Mitu. Then Mitu asks him, what is he doing here? Babul tells Mitu that he is working on the laptop to go abroad. Mitu felt very sad to see both of them in this condition. He was there for a while. As the kids are alone, Mitu comes to their room. After the kids went to sleep, she fell asleep too.

Describing seeing him again in an offensive condition late at night, he said, Mitu woke up around 3 am. Babul Akhter was still not in Mitu’s room. When Mitu went to the woman’s room again, she found them both in an offensive state. Mitu came to the room crying and called me. Then I told him, you come. Mitu then says, my sons and daughters will think me bad. So I trust in Allah.

While testifying, Shaheda Musharraf said that Babul Akhtar came to Bangladesh three to four times during his stay abroad (on mission). However, even after returning to the country, he did not go to the house, i.e. to Mitu or his children. After completing the mission, he went to China. Sitting there, Babul planned to kill Mitu.

Mitu had a business. Mitu was killed with three lakh rupees from the business. Babul Akhtar came to our house after Mitu died. He was in our house for six months. Sitting there, he interacted with the accused. On June 24 (2016) Babul Akhtar was taken to the DB office. Then Babul left the job from there. I then asked him, why quit the job? Then he says, I have to quit my job because of Mitu’s murder. I told him, is the matter of your leaving your job for the trial of Mitu’s murder?, he said.

Shaheda Musharraf said that Babul Akhtar bought weapons for Musa with 70 thousand taka to kill Mitu. Musa’s wife said this. Musa’s wife asked him, did you kill Mitu? Musa then told his wife, Babul Akhtar will crossfire me if I don’t kill him. Babul Akhtar told us that the accused of Mitu’s murder have been arrested. I asked to crossfire.

Shaheda also said that accused Wasim, Anwar were arrested. A few days later Bhola was caught. After being arrested, he gave a statement in court – Musa killed Mitu on the orders of Babul Akhtar. A month and a half after Mitu’s death, we came to Chittagong to teach Milad at the house where she was staying. A few days later, accused Kalu and Shahjahan were arrested. After we came to Chittagong, it seems that Babul Akhtar killed Mitu in a premeditated manner. He filed a case of Mitu’s murder himself with false information. Later, the investigating officer of the case told my husband, you filed a case against Babul Akhtar. On May 12, 2021, Mitu’s father Babul Akhtar filed a case at Panchlaish police station.

Babul Akhtar’s mother called Mitu’s mother Shaheda 15 days before her death (in 2017). He called me and said, My son (Babul) killed Bayain, Mitu. You forgive him. Then I said to him (Babul’s mother), if Babul died, would you have said this? I have told this to the investigating officer.

Retired police inspector Mohiuddin Mahmud testified first after the start of testimony in this sensational case at 12 noon today. who was in charge of Panchlaish police station (OC) of the city at the time of the incident. Then Shaheda Musharraf stood in the courtroom to testify.

It is to be noted that on the morning of June 5, 2016, Mitu, the wife of Chittagong Superintendent of Police Babul Akhtar, was shot and hacked to death while going to drop her son in the school bus at GEC intersection in Chittagong city. SP Babul was transferred from Chittagong a few days before the incident. The murder took place in Chittagong soon after he left to join his workplace in Dhaka.

After three and a half years of investigation, the DB Police could not find any clues, so the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) got the charge of investigating the case on the orders of the court in January 2020. Then in May 2021, PBI said that wife Mitu was killed in Babul Akhtar’s ‘plan’. For this, Babul “gave three lakh taka through people” to the killers.

Later after giving the final report in Babul’s case Mitu’s father filed another case. However, Babul’s case was revived after that case did not reach the court. On September 13, 2023, the PBI filed a charge sheet in the court in that case. Seven people including Babul were accused. On October 10 of that year, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Chittagong accepted the complaint. On 13 March 2023, the court ordered the trial to be started by framing charges against the accused. The testimony began on April 9 of that year. Mitu’s father Mosharraf Hossain testified as the first witness.

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