Staff Reporter :
The verdict on sensational Narayanganj seven murder case is fixed for today after two and a half years of the occurrence and one year of court proceedings marked by noisy incidents around the court.
All eyes are fixed on the verdict because of involvement of powerful people in the ruling party and also from disciplined forces.
Judge Syed Enayetur Rahman of Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge’s court will deliver the verdict after prolonged hearing.
After completion of the defence arguments on behalf of 23 arrested accused and 12 fugitives, the court had earlier set the date to pronounce its verdict on November 30.
On the day before the verdict today, Selina Islam Beauty, widow of the slain councillor Nazrul Islam hoped for an exemplary punishment of the accused.
“If the punishment makes an example, no one will dare to commit such heinous murders again,” said Beauty while talking to The New Nation yesterday.
Demanding capital punishment for the killers, Beauty said, “Once such a punishment is ensured for killers, no other wife will lose her husband, no child will lose their father, and no mother will lose her son.
The bereaved Beauty also demanded immediate arrest of some of the killers who remained absconding.
The slain councillor’s wife says her family has been threatened many times over the cases.
“We have received death threats in the mail,” she said. “We still do not feel safe.”
“All the murderers should be punished. They should be awarded capital punishment.” We have lost our loved ones,” Bijoy Kumar Paul, son-in-law of slain senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, told The New Nation yesterday.
He said, “The court should establish a precedent with this verdict, so that no one could ever think of committing such murders again.”
Narayanganj City Corporation councillor Nazrul Islam along with his three aides and driver were kidnapped allegedly by a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-11 on April 27 in 2014.
Besides, senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver Ibrahim were also picked up by the same team as they witnessed the abduction of Nazrul and his associates.
Subsequently all the seven bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river days after their abduction. Two cases were filed in this connection– one by Nazrul’s wife Beauty and the other by Chandan Sarkar’s son-in-law Bijoy Kumar Paul– accusing 35 persons.
Several probe bodies were formed by the government, Police and RAB following the murder case.
CID was given the charge to investigate the case as per the directive of the High Court while the government assigned Detective Branch of Police with the task.
On November 12 of 2014, the Supreme Court after hearing a petition of Attorney General exempted CID from the investigation. More than a year later, on June 4 of 2015, the High Court directed RAB, the government’s seven-member probe committee, the Inspector General of Police and the CID to submit progress reports on their investigations.
RAB found 21 of its members including three top officials of RAB-11 unit involved in the incident. The RAB personnel are: Hamidul Haque, Hira Miah, Belal Hossain, Abu Tayab, and Arif Hossain, all of whom are the members of RAB 11.
The three top official of RAB 11 unit Lt Colonel Tareque Sayeed, Lt Commander Masud Rana and Major Arif Hossain made confessions of their involvement in the case. All the three top officials of RAB, including Tareque Sayeed, who is the son-in-law of Disaster and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury (Maya) were sent to forced retirement by the military forces of the country.
Nur Hossain, a prime accused in the case and Narayanganj City Awami League leader, and also a former councillor, who fled to India after the murders took place, was arrested in Kolkata on June 14, 2015. And the other one (Nazmul Haque) is missing after November 2014 in the same place in India. In November 12, 2015, Indian government handed over Nur Hossain to Bangladesh
After years of investigation, the Detective Branch of Police pressed a charge sheet against 35 people on April 8, 2015.
On February 8, after a number of hearings, a Narayanganj court indicted all the 35 names of the chargesheet for the seven murder incident. The formal trial of the case in Narayanganj began on February 29, 2016.
Twenty three accused including senior RAB officers – Tarek Sayeed Mohamad, Arif Hossain and MM Rana — are now in police custody.
Among the other accused, 12 people remained absconding. Out of the 12, eight were members of the Narayanganj-based RAB 11.
From the very beginning, the Beauty and his family claimed that Nur Hossain had paid Tk 60 million to senior officers of the local RAB unit to carry out the murders.
“The countrymen want exemplary punishment for the killers of the seven persons and I also want the same,” said Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
He came up with the remark in response to a query during a press briefing at his office in the Supreme Court premises on Sunday.
The Attorney General hoped that an exemplary punishment would be awarded to the offenders in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, as the trial court will deliver its verdict on Monday.
He also said the incident of the seven-murder in 2014 was a pre-planned killing.
The verdict on sensational Narayanganj seven murder case is fixed for today after two and a half years of the occurrence and one year of court proceedings marked by noisy incidents around the court.
All eyes are fixed on the verdict because of involvement of powerful people in the ruling party and also from disciplined forces.
Judge Syed Enayetur Rahman of Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge’s court will deliver the verdict after prolonged hearing.
After completion of the defence arguments on behalf of 23 arrested accused and 12 fugitives, the court had earlier set the date to pronounce its verdict on November 30.
On the day before the verdict today, Selina Islam Beauty, widow of the slain councillor Nazrul Islam hoped for an exemplary punishment of the accused.
“If the punishment makes an example, no one will dare to commit such heinous murders again,” said Beauty while talking to The New Nation yesterday.
Demanding capital punishment for the killers, Beauty said, “Once such a punishment is ensured for killers, no other wife will lose her husband, no child will lose their father, and no mother will lose her son.
The bereaved Beauty also demanded immediate arrest of some of the killers who remained absconding.
The slain councillor’s wife says her family has been threatened many times over the cases.
“We have received death threats in the mail,” she said. “We still do not feel safe.”
“All the murderers should be punished. They should be awarded capital punishment.” We have lost our loved ones,” Bijoy Kumar Paul, son-in-law of slain senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, told The New Nation yesterday.
He said, “The court should establish a precedent with this verdict, so that no one could ever think of committing such murders again.”
Narayanganj City Corporation councillor Nazrul Islam along with his three aides and driver were kidnapped allegedly by a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-11 on April 27 in 2014.
Besides, senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver Ibrahim were also picked up by the same team as they witnessed the abduction of Nazrul and his associates.
Subsequently all the seven bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river days after their abduction. Two cases were filed in this connection– one by Nazrul’s wife Beauty and the other by Chandan Sarkar’s son-in-law Bijoy Kumar Paul– accusing 35 persons.
Several probe bodies were formed by the government, Police and RAB following the murder case.
CID was given the charge to investigate the case as per the directive of the High Court while the government assigned Detective Branch of Police with the task.
On November 12 of 2014, the Supreme Court after hearing a petition of Attorney General exempted CID from the investigation. More than a year later, on June 4 of 2015, the High Court directed RAB, the government’s seven-member probe committee, the Inspector General of Police and the CID to submit progress reports on their investigations.
RAB found 21 of its members including three top officials of RAB-11 unit involved in the incident. The RAB personnel are: Hamidul Haque, Hira Miah, Belal Hossain, Abu Tayab, and Arif Hossain, all of whom are the members of RAB 11.
The three top official of RAB 11 unit Lt Colonel Tareque Sayeed, Lt Commander Masud Rana and Major Arif Hossain made confessions of their involvement in the case. All the three top officials of RAB, including Tareque Sayeed, who is the son-in-law of Disaster and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury (Maya) were sent to forced retirement by the military forces of the country.
Nur Hossain, a prime accused in the case and Narayanganj City Awami League leader, and also a former councillor, who fled to India after the murders took place, was arrested in Kolkata on June 14, 2015. And the other one (Nazmul Haque) is missing after November 2014 in the same place in India. In November 12, 2015, Indian government handed over Nur Hossain to Bangladesh
After years of investigation, the Detective Branch of Police pressed a charge sheet against 35 people on April 8, 2015.
On February 8, after a number of hearings, a Narayanganj court indicted all the 35 names of the chargesheet for the seven murder incident. The formal trial of the case in Narayanganj began on February 29, 2016.
Twenty three accused including senior RAB officers – Tarek Sayeed Mohamad, Arif Hossain and MM Rana — are now in police custody.
Among the other accused, 12 people remained absconding. Out of the 12, eight were members of the Narayanganj-based RAB 11.
From the very beginning, the Beauty and his family claimed that Nur Hossain had paid Tk 60 million to senior officers of the local RAB unit to carry out the murders.
“The countrymen want exemplary punishment for the killers of the seven persons and I also want the same,” said Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
He came up with the remark in response to a query during a press briefing at his office in the Supreme Court premises on Sunday.
The Attorney General hoped that an exemplary punishment would be awarded to the offenders in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, as the trial court will deliver its verdict on Monday.
He also said the incident of the seven-murder in 2014 was a pre-planned killing.
