Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday deferred the hearing on the appeals filed challenging the High Court verdict in Awami League leader Ahsanullah Master killing case till March 4.
A four-member Bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order as there were shortage of relevant papers for hearing the appeals, Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir told the reporters.
He said, Ahsanullah’s brother Matiur Rahman, who filed the murder case, the government and the convicts have submitted five separate appeals in the SC against the HC verdict.
In their appeals, Matiur and the government sought the death penalty for all the accused, while the convicts sought acquittal of the charges of the case, the Additional Attorney General added.
Momtaz Uddin, however, could not say whether the accused who got acquittal by the HC in the case got released from jail.
Gunmen killed Ahsanullah Master, a Freedom Fighter, and Omar Faruq Ratan, a student in a staccato burst of fire on a rally of Swechchhasebak League, a pro-AL body, at Noagaon near the Minister’s house in Tongi on May 7, 2004.
The day after the murder of Ahsanullah, his brother Matiur Rahman filed a case with Tongi Police Station against 19 people, including Nurul Islam Sarkar, leader of pro-BNP youth body Jubo Dal.
The HC on June 15, 2016, confirmed the death penalty of six persons, including Nurul Islam Sarkar, for the killing, a decade after a trial court sentenced 22 people to death and six others to life term for the murder.
The HC, however, commuted capital punishment of seven others to life imprisonment, upheld life term of two and acquitted 11 of the charges against them. It disposed of the appeals of two others as they died during the trial of the much-talked-about political killing.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday deferred the hearing on the appeals filed challenging the High Court verdict in Awami League leader Ahsanullah Master killing case till March 4.
A four-member Bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order as there were shortage of relevant papers for hearing the appeals, Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir told the reporters.
He said, Ahsanullah’s brother Matiur Rahman, who filed the murder case, the government and the convicts have submitted five separate appeals in the SC against the HC verdict.
In their appeals, Matiur and the government sought the death penalty for all the accused, while the convicts sought acquittal of the charges of the case, the Additional Attorney General added.
Momtaz Uddin, however, could not say whether the accused who got acquittal by the HC in the case got released from jail.
Gunmen killed Ahsanullah Master, a Freedom Fighter, and Omar Faruq Ratan, a student in a staccato burst of fire on a rally of Swechchhasebak League, a pro-AL body, at Noagaon near the Minister’s house in Tongi on May 7, 2004.
The day after the murder of Ahsanullah, his brother Matiur Rahman filed a case with Tongi Police Station against 19 people, including Nurul Islam Sarkar, leader of pro-BNP youth body Jubo Dal.
The HC on June 15, 2016, confirmed the death penalty of six persons, including Nurul Islam Sarkar, for the killing, a decade after a trial court sentenced 22 people to death and six others to life term for the murder.
The HC, however, commuted capital punishment of seven others to life imprisonment, upheld life term of two and acquitted 11 of the charges against them. It disposed of the appeals of two others as they died during the trial of the much-talked-about political killing.
