Lawyer Alif murder case in chattogram

The Supreme Court and the chattogram District Bar Association have ordered to reissue hulia and croki warrants issued against two accused in the murder case of Advocate Saiful Islam Alif, a member of the Supreme Court and Chittagong District Bar Association, as they did not return to the court.

The court, headed by chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Bakkar Siddique, issued this order on Monday (December 1). The two accused are Shuvo Kanti Das and Sukanta Dutta.

Assistant Public Prosecutor of the court Md. Raihanul Wazed Chowdhury said that the court has accepted chargesheets against a total of 39 accused in the Alif murder case. Of these, 21 have been arrested and 18 are still absconding. Out of the 18 absconding accused, 16 accused have returned to the court after being issued hulia and croki warrants. The court has reserved the order to issue the Hulia and Kroki warrants for the remaining 2 accused as they did not return to the court after the Hulia and Kroki warrants were issued.

The accused in the charge sheet are - Chandan Das Methar, Ripon Das, Rajiv Bhattacharya, Shuvo Kanti Das, Aman Das, Bunja, Ranab, Bidhan, Vikas, Ramit Prakash Das, Rumit Das, Nayan Das, Omkar Das, Vishal, Lala Das, Sameer, Sohel Das, Shiv Kumar, Biglal, Parash, Ganesh, Om Das, Poppy, Ajay, Devi Charan, Dev, Joy, Lala Methar, Durlav Das, Sumit Das, Sonu Das, Saku Das, Bhajan, Ashiq, Shahit, Shiva Das and Dwip Das. On November 26, 2024, lawyer Saiful Islam Alif was beaten and hacked to death in a clash over the bail of Sanatani Jagran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das in the Chittagong Court Building area. In this incident, his father Jamal Uddin filed a murder case with the city's Kotwali Police Station, naming 31 people. On June 1, 2025, the investigation officer of the case, the then Assistant Police Commissioner of Kotwali Zone of CMP, Mahfuzur Rahman, submitted a chargesheet to the relevant branch of the chattogram Court in the Alif murder case. The chargesheet was filed in the court with 38 people, including Sanatani Jagran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari.

On August 25, the court accepted the chargesheet against 39 people, including Sukanta Dutta, after hearing the admissibility of the chargesheet submitted by the investigation officer of the case in the court of the then chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate SM Alauddin Mahmud. Although a case report was filed against 31 people, the investigation officer requested that Gagan Das, Vishal Das and Rajkapur Methar, who were named in the case, be exempted from the case as they were not found to be involved.

However, when 10 more people, including Chinmoy Krishna Das, were newly found to be involved, a charge sheet was filed against a total of 39 people, including them.