The Police Bureau of Investigation in a probe report submitted to a Chattogram Court on April 12 said Hefajat-e Islam (HeI) Amir (Chief) Junaid Babunagari and 42 others were involved in ‘creating an atmosphere that hastened the death’ of the Islamist outfit's supremo Shah Ahmad Shafi, reports The Daily Star. After Shafi's demise in September 2020, his brother-in-law Mohammad Moin Uddin claimed that Shafi was murdered in a planned way and filed the case on December 17, 2020, against 36 people, including HeI leader Mamunul Haque. Of the 36 accused in the case, the names of 31, including HeI Organising Secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi, were on the list of 43 people that the PBI submitted to the court. The investigators included 12 others in the list following probe.