UNB, Dhaka :
The High Court on Monday fixed April 2 to deliver its verdict on the appeals filed by the convicts in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case. A High Court bench comprising justice Jahangir Hossain and justice Md Jahangir Hossain passed the order. Earlier on January 9, the HC kept the verdict in the case pending after concluding a 22-day hearing 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 Ganojagoran Mancho, was hacked to death near his house at Mirpur Palash Nagar in the capital. Later, a Dhaka court on December 31, 2015, sentenced two people to death, one to life term imprisonment while six others to different jail terms for the murder.
The condemned convicts are: Faisal Din Nayeem alias Dwip and Redwanul Azad Rana while the lifer is Maksudul Hasan Anik.
The High Court on Monday fixed April 2 to deliver its verdict on the appeals filed by the convicts in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case. A High Court bench comprising justice Jahangir Hossain and justice Md Jahangir Hossain passed the order. Earlier on January 9, the HC kept the verdict in the case pending after concluding a 22-day hearing 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 Ganojagoran Mancho, was hacked to death near his house at Mirpur Palash Nagar in the capital. Later, a Dhaka court on December 31, 2015, sentenced two people to death, one to life term imprisonment while six others to different jail terms for the murder.
The condemned convicts are: Faisal Din Nayeem alias Dwip and Redwanul Azad Rana while the lifer is Maksudul Hasan Anik.
