Court Correspondent :
The judgement in the murder case of former Dhaka University teacher, intellectual and writer professor Humayun Azad is scheduled to be pronounced today (Wednesday).
On February 27 in 2004, Humayun Azad sustained severe injuries when several miscreants hacked him indiscriminately at Amar Ekushey Book Fair premises of Bangla Academy.
The following day, Azad’s brother Manjur Kabir filed a case of attempt to murder with Ramna Model Police Station.
After the attack, he was under treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) of Dhaka for 22 days and at Bangkok for 48 days. Later, in 2004, he went to Germany for his research work, and on August 12 of the same year his body was recovered from his Munich flat. The case turned into a murder case after his death.
Dhaka’s Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Al Mamun will deliver the verdict.
On November 14 in 2007, Kazi Abdul Malek, Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted charge sheet of the case against five alleged militants including the chief of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Shaykh Abdur Rahman.
However, on March 30 of the same year, Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Ataur Rahman were hanged in another murder case of two judges in Jhalokati.
After reinvestigation, CID Inspector Lutfar Rahman, the main Investigation Officer of the case, pressed charges against five accused on April 30, 2012.
