Naimul's death: Case ready for trial against Motiur Rahman

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Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday transferred the case filed about the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat ,15, to the next higher court.
Magistrate Mohammad Jashim of the CMM Court passed the order in presence of the accused on Sunday. The case was filed against 10 people including Editor of the Prothom Alo Motiur Rahman, as it is ready for trial.
The other nine accused are Editor of Kishor Alo,
a publication of the Prothom Alo, Anisul Hoque, Prothom Alo Senior Sub-Editor Mohitul Alam, head of event and activation Kabir Bakul, executives Shah Paran Tushar and Shuvashish Pramanik and Jasim Uddin, Mosharraf Hossain, Sujon and Kamrul Hawlader, who were in charge of providing electricity supply to the function.
The court on September 3 granted bail to Anisul Hoque, Mohitul Alam, Kabir Bakul, Shah Paran Tushar and Shuvashish Pramanik in the case. It came up with the order as the accused surrendered in the court and pleaded for bail in the case. Earlier, Motiur Rahman and four others were granted bail in the case.
The court issued that order a day after it directed the authorities concerned to attach the properties of those five accused.
Ninth grader Naimul Abrar Rahat died after being electrocuted behind the stage at an event organised by the Kishor Alo, a publication of the Prothom Alo, on the Dhaka Residential Model College premises on November 1, 2019.
On November 6, 2019, Naimul’s father Mojibur Rahman filed the case with the court in this connection.
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