Court Correspondent :
A court of Sylhet yesterday sentenced prime accused Foyzul Hasan to life term imprisonment and Md Sohag Miah to four years’ in the prison in a case filed over the attempt to murder Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) campus in 2018.
Besides, Judge Muhammad Nurul Amin Biplob of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal of Sylhet acquitted four other accused as allegations brought against them could not be proved. However, the accused persons are in the jail.
On March 3, 2018, the educationist and writer was attacked and stabbed in the head by Foyzul Hasan during a programme on the university’s open stage. Soon after the attack, Foyzul was caught red-handed by the students and teachers and was handed over to the police.
Professor Zafar Iqbal was first treated at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and later at the Combined Military Hospital of Dhaka.
A day after the incident, SUST Registrar Mohd Ishfaqul Hossain filed the case with Jalalabad Police Station in Sylhet under Anti-Terrorism Act.
After investigation, the police station’s Officer-in-Charge Shafiqul Islam, and also the Investigation Officer of the case, presented the charge sheet to the Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Sylhet accusing Foyzul and five others on May 6, 2018.
The four acquitted accused are Foyzul’s father Hafez Maulana Atiqur Rahman, mother Minara Begum, uncle Fozlur Rahman and brother Enamul Hasan.
A Sylhet court on October 4 of that year framed charges against the six accused and later in 2020, the case was forwarded to Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal.
