The progress in framing chargesheets against the main culprits in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally and its President Sheikh Hasina at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city is at final stage.(Bangladesh Today)

"We are at final stage of framing chargesheets against the persons involved in the August 21 grenade attack. Our investigation officials will finalise their report within a day or two," Inspector General of Police Noor Mohammad told The Bangladesh Today on Wednesday. The chargesheet will be submitted soon, he added.

It may be pointed out that there was no progress in the investigation into the case three years into the August 21 grenade attack due to the interference by the past BNP government. At least 24 Awami League activists including Ivy Rahman were killed in the heinous attack.

The then BNP government tried to divert the case and influenced the then investigators of the case. Under influence of the then ruling BNP the investigators made a story and had implicated a ward level AL leader and former ward commissioner of Maghbazar area in the capital, Mokhlesur Rahman. In this connection, the law enforcers arrested a criminal named Joj Miah. Joj Miah confessed to the then investigators that Mokhlesur Rahman was one of the master minds behind the attck.

According to the confessional statements given by Joj Miah and two others' Abul Hashem alias Rana, and Shafiqul Islam, statements, the then Criminal Investigation Department (CID) police tried to frame a charge sheets but in the face of massive criticism from different quarters including the print and electronic media did not finalise the charge sheets, according to sources

Following the statements of Joj Mia, Abul Hashem alias Rana, and Shafiqul Islam, statements police arrested some 17 others suspects.

Badar Aziz Uddin of Cox's Bazar, filed the case accusing former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman, Jamaat Chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, and 25 others in connection with the August 21 grenade attack with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka, on June 5, 2007. Badar Aziz Uddin had also received serious injuries in the attack.