Charges against Limon in a case lodged by Rapid Action Battalion after maiming him has not withdrawn yet even after thirteen months of home-ministry order as hearing for withdrawal of that case deferred for the ninth time on Monday.
The hearing deferred to September 30, 2014 as the chief judicial magistrate of Jhalakathi has been transferred in August 2013 and acting CJM and senior judicial magistrate Md. Arifuzzaman has no jurisdiction to hear such appeal, explained Advocate M Alam Khan Kalam, additional public prosecutor of Jhalakathi.
Accused Limon Hossain was exempted from personally appearing before the court and the defense lawyers appeared on behalf of him as he was a student of law faculty at Gano Bishwabidyaloy in Savar, said Advocate Akkas Shikdar , lawyer of defense side,
Limon Hossain was a college student who used to work in a brick kiln to bear his educational expenses and allegedly maimed by RAB shooting in the leg after taking him to a place adjacent to his house at Jamaddarhat in Rajapur Upazila of Jhalakathi on March 23, 2011.
Limon’s left leg was amputated from the thigh on March 27 at Dhaka National Institute for Traumatolgy and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) Hospital.
RAB after maiming Limon filed two cases one case under the arms act (GR-45) and another for obstructing government duty, making attempts to murder and injuring RAB personnel (GR-46) on the same day of shooting him with Rajapur police station against the teenager and seven others.
Sub Inspector Ariful Islam, investigation officer, separately submitted charge sheets of the GR.45 and GR-46 cases on April 24, 2011 and July 1, 2012 against Limon, 16 (at the time of occurrences), under juvenile crime prevention act and against seven other accused members of local terrorists ‘Mizan-Morshed’ gang, under different sections of penal code.
