The Bangladesh police have pressed charges against 21 militants of the outlawed Harkat-ul Jihad-e-Islami and a former Bangladesh Nationalist Party minister for the
grenade attack on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's rally in 2004 that left her injured and killed 24 others, officials said on Thursday.
The chargesheet against the 21 members of HuJI --
blamed for terror attacks in India as well, including its detained top leader Mufty Hannan, and Abdus Salam Pintu, a deputy minister in the erstwhile Khaleda Zia-led government -- was filed in a Dhaka court on Wednesday.
The chief metropolitan magistrate's court issued an arrest warrant against the eight fugitives while the other accused including Pintu are already in custody. The development coincided with the release of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina from an 11-month detention