Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Thursday once again deferred the hearing of the case filed in connection with the murder of Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed to September 17.
Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 passed the order following a petition of the prosecution seeking time as none of witnesses appeared in the court on Thursday.
Earlier, on the 12th and 29th June, 3rd and 9th August and on 4th September, none turned up to the court to testify in the case. Before that, on seven dates till May 28, the
prosecution failed to produce any witness. Of the 37 witnesses of the case, only 26 testified in the case on different occasions.
Zubair, an English department student of the university, was beaten by some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on January 8, 2012 and he succumbed to the injuries in a city hospital in the capital the following day.
A case was filed with Ashulia Police Station in this connection. Police submitted the charge sheet of the case against 13 BCL activists on April 8, 2012. On September 8 last year, the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 framed charges against the accused.
Of the accused, Mahbub Akram and Najmus Sakib alias Topu made confessional statements admitting their involvement in the incident to a Dhaka court on January 15, 2012.
A Dhaka court on Thursday once again deferred the hearing of the case filed in connection with the murder of Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed to September 17.
Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 passed the order following a petition of the prosecution seeking time as none of witnesses appeared in the court on Thursday.
Earlier, on the 12th and 29th June, 3rd and 9th August and on 4th September, none turned up to the court to testify in the case. Before that, on seven dates till May 28, the
prosecution failed to produce any witness. Of the 37 witnesses of the case, only 26 testified in the case on different occasions.
Zubair, an English department student of the university, was beaten by some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on January 8, 2012 and he succumbed to the injuries in a city hospital in the capital the following day.
A case was filed with Ashulia Police Station in this connection. Police submitted the charge sheet of the case against 13 BCL activists on April 8, 2012. On September 8 last year, the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 framed charges against the accused.
Of the accused, Mahbub Akram and Najmus Sakib alias Topu made confessional statements admitting their involvement in the incident to a Dhaka court on January 15, 2012.
