Khandker Al-Amin Karim Babu of Nuniagari village in Plashabari upazila filed the case with Polashbari police station on March 29.

The accused include Palashbari upazila BNP secretary Ziaul Hoq Rubel, party leaders Moazzem Hossain and Idu Mia, Jubo Dal president Faridul Hoq Rubel, its organising secretary Mosfiqur Rahman and Sramik Dal activist Mohammed Israafil.

In the complaint Babu said he returned home from Saudi Arabia three years ago and has been working in Dhaka since then, leaving his wife and a minor son at the village home.

In his absence, the BNP men often claimed toll from his wife and threatened to kidnap our son Babu alleged.

On December 24, 2003 a gang led by the BNP men attacked his house, tortured his wife and demanded Tk two lakh toll on gun point. As his wife Shahanaz Begum refused to pay the toll, the miscreants kicked her and forcibly took her signature on two blank non judicial stamps.

While leaving, they looted valuables worth about Tk 2,37,710.

The plaintiff said he could not file case earlier out of fear of retaliation by the miscreants.

In the blank signed stamp, the miscreants wrote that Shahanaz Begum he mortgaged his house to them against a loan and was trying to file a false case.

Police yesterday confirmed filing of the case by Babu and said they recovered some of the looted goods from the house of a BNP leader.

Police said the BNP men were also accused earlier in Lipu murder case (GR No. 903/98) and school student Rejbul Huq Plabon murder case (GR No. 131/05).