Dhaka, Aug 21 (TIWN) The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has filed a chargesheet against 9 militants of banned outfit Ansar-al-Islam including Syed Ziaul Haque, a sacked army officer, chief of Ansar al-Islam's military wing in a case related to the killing of a secular online activist and blogger Nazimuddin Samad.

Samad, an activist and law student at Jagannath University, was killed on April 6, 2016, at Ekrampur intersection in Laxmibazar here while he was on his way back to the hostel after class.

Five militants had hacked Nazim to death with choppers, they confessed before the court, police told IANS.

After killing him, the militants fled on two motorcycles. A case was filed at Sutrapur police station over the incident.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Deputy Commissioner (DC) of CTTC Saiful Islam confirmed the information to IANS on Thursday evening.

Ansar al-Islam, a banned Militant outfit and pro-Al-Qaeda militant group, has killed nine people in Bangladesh, including science-fiction writer and philosopher Abhijit Roy, Ahmed Rashid Tutul, the publisher and childhood friend of Avijit, owner of a publishing company ‘Shuddhaswar’.