Staff Reporter :
The State appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to initiate the hearing on the appeal in the Saudi embassy diplomat Khalaf murder case.
Khalaf Al Ali, 45, head of citizen’s affairs of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Dhaka was shot dead near his Gulshan house in the capital’s diplomatic enclave on March 6 in 2012.
The appeal will be placed for hearing in the court of the Chamber
Judge of the Appellate Division on Sunday.
On December 30 in 2012, a Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka sentenced five persons to death for killing Saudi Embassy official Khalaf. The convicted are Mohammad Al Amin, Saiful Islam Mamun, Rafiqul Islam Khokon, Akbar Ali Lalu and Selim Chowdhury.
Of them, Selim was absconding when the verdict was delivered.
The HC in its judgment on November 18, 2013 upheld the death sentence of Saiful Islam and commuted death sentence of Al Amin, Akbar Ali and Rafiqul Islam to life-term imprisonment and acquitted Selim Chowdhury of the charge.
But on January 23, 2014 the Appellate Division granted the State leave to appeal against the HC judgment. Accordingly the State filed three appeals last year.
Police filed a murder case two days after the killing. Police submitted a charge-sheet in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on September 20. A Dhaka Court framed charges against the five accused on October 31.
Saudi Arabia, where more than two million Bangladeshis stay and work, is a key ally and a major donor to Bangladesh.
The State appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to initiate the hearing on the appeal in the Saudi embassy diplomat Khalaf murder case.
Khalaf Al Ali, 45, head of citizen’s affairs of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Dhaka was shot dead near his Gulshan house in the capital’s diplomatic enclave on March 6 in 2012.
The appeal will be placed for hearing in the court of the Chamber
Judge of the Appellate Division on Sunday.
On December 30 in 2012, a Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka sentenced five persons to death for killing Saudi Embassy official Khalaf. The convicted are Mohammad Al Amin, Saiful Islam Mamun, Rafiqul Islam Khokon, Akbar Ali Lalu and Selim Chowdhury.
Of them, Selim was absconding when the verdict was delivered.
The HC in its judgment on November 18, 2013 upheld the death sentence of Saiful Islam and commuted death sentence of Al Amin, Akbar Ali and Rafiqul Islam to life-term imprisonment and acquitted Selim Chowdhury of the charge.
But on January 23, 2014 the Appellate Division granted the State leave to appeal against the HC judgment. Accordingly the State filed three appeals last year.
Police filed a murder case two days after the killing. Police submitted a charge-sheet in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on September 20. A Dhaka Court framed charges against the five accused on October 31.
Saudi Arabia, where more than two million Bangladeshis stay and work, is a key ally and a major donor to Bangladesh.
