Court Correspondent :
The 163-page full verdict in the case filed for killing blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in 2015 was published on the Supreme Court website on Sunday.
Before it on April 2, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court pronounced the judgment sentencing two accused to death, another to life term and six others to different terms of imprisonment. The High Court upheld the subordinate court verdict in the case.
After signed by two Judges, Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice Md Jahangir Hossain, the verdict was published on Sunday morning.
The convicts are Faisal Din Nayeem alias Dwip and Redwanul Azad Rana, while Maksudul Hasan Anik was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment.
On January 9, the High Court kept the verdict pending after hearings for 22 days on the death reference and appeal petition of the accused.
The hearing on the appeal petitions and the death reference of the accused began on November 7 last year.
On 15 February, 2013, Ahmed Rajib Haider, an activist of Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death near his house at Mirpur’s Palash Nagar in the capital. Later, a Dhaka court on December 31, 2015, sentenced two persons to death, one to life term imprisonment and six others to different jail terms for committing the murder.
