Police close to finding murderer of Haque

Rajbiraj, May 23 –  Chief of the District Police Office, Saptari, SP Sanjay Singh Basnet, has claimed that police have reached close to the murderer of Sadrul Miyan Haque, former lawmaker of the dissolved Constituent Assembly (CA).

Stating that police have found important tip-offs even if it has not been able to arrest anyone so far, Basnet expressed the view that the murderers would be arrested within a few days.

Police did not give any information about the progress regarding the investigation of the incident though a probe committee formed by the government has started works from Wednesday.

Meanwhile, police have sent hundreds of vehicles stranded at different places of Saptari and Siraha districts along the East-West Highway to the destinations from 2:00 am -5:00 am this morning.

The vehicles were stranded due to continuous banda for the past two days called to protest the murder.

Police sent the vehicles to the destination as per the agreement reached between the Struggle Committee formed to protest the murder and the local administration.

Markets, factories, educational institutions and transportation services remained closed though the stranded vehicles were sent to the destination. Normal life has been hit hard due to the banda.

Locals and relatives of Haque have been launching agitation by putting forth a nine-point demands including that Haque be declared a martyr, Home Minister should be present in the incident site and should express commitment to take action against the murderer and Judicial Probe Commission should be formed under the leadership of a former judge.

An unidentified group had on Monday night murdered Haque, a resident of Kalyanpur-2 by attacking him with a sharp weapon at his own petrol pump Huma Oil Traders at Khojpur-7.

Haque was elected as an independent candidate to the Constituent Assembly in the CA elections held in 2008 from Constituency-5 in Saptari.

 RSS