Probe report in Akhtaruzzaman airport disorder case on 15 December

A Dhaka court has set 15 December for submission of the investigation report in a case filed against Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former MP Major (retd) Akhtaruzzaman over allegations of obstructing government officials in the discharge of their duties and misbehaving with them at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ripon Hossain fixed the date after a hearing on Monday, Sub-Inspector Saiful Islam of the prosecution division confirmed the development on Tuesday. 

According to court sources, today was fixed for submission of the investigation report. However, police of Airport Police Station, the investigation agency in the case, failed to submit the report, prompting the court to set a fresh date.

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him from his residence in Dhaka Cantonment on 2 October. 

The following day, a court placed him on a one-day remand for interrogation. After the remand, he was produced before a court on 4 October, which rejected his bail petition and sent him to jail.

Later, the High Court later granted him bail on 1 November in the case.

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The case was filed over an incident at the airport on 1 October, when passengers arriving from Madinah on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight reportedly faced a shortage of luggage trolleys and delays in collecting their baggage.

According to the case statement, Akhtaruzzaman verbally abused and threatened Airport Executive Director Group Captain SM Ragib Samad and assaulted security supervisor Warrant Officer Mohammad Kamal Uddin.

He was also accused of throwing Zamzam water bottles off passengers’ trolleys and behaving aggressively towards a Biman representative.