UNB, Dhaka :
The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Tuesday on appeals filed by five condemned convicts in the Scholastica schoolgirl Shazneen Tasnim Rahman killing case.
The case has been kept on Tuesday’s cause list of the Appellate Division for rehearing. The five-member Appellate Division bench, headed by
Chief Justice SK Sinha, kept the case as CAV (curia advisari vult) after concluding the hearing on April 11. On 23 April, 1998, Shazneen, a Class-IX student of Scholastica School in Dhaka and daughter of Transcom Group chairman Latifur Rahman, was brutally murdered at her house.
On September 2, 2003, Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Kazi Rahmatullah handed down death penalty to six accused for their involvement in planning and executing the murder.
The convicts were Syed Sazzad Mainuddin Hasan, a contractor who was appointed to repair the house; Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, a domestic help; Sazzad’s assistant Badal; carpenter Shaniram Mandal, and maids Estema Khatun Minu and Parvin. On July 10, 2006, the High Court upheld the death penalty of five convicts and acquitted carpenter Shaniram Mandal of the charges. Later, four of the convicts filed a leave-to-appeal with the Supreme Court against the High Court order that was granted by the Appellate Division on April 26, 2009.
Another convict, Shahidul, filed a jail appeal. The Appellate Division started the hearing on the appeals on March 29 last and concluded the hearing on April 11.
The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Tuesday on appeals filed by five condemned convicts in the Scholastica schoolgirl Shazneen Tasnim Rahman killing case.
The case has been kept on Tuesday’s cause list of the Appellate Division for rehearing. The five-member Appellate Division bench, headed by
Chief Justice SK Sinha, kept the case as CAV (curia advisari vult) after concluding the hearing on April 11. On 23 April, 1998, Shazneen, a Class-IX student of Scholastica School in Dhaka and daughter of Transcom Group chairman Latifur Rahman, was brutally murdered at her house.
On September 2, 2003, Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Kazi Rahmatullah handed down death penalty to six accused for their involvement in planning and executing the murder.
The convicts were Syed Sazzad Mainuddin Hasan, a contractor who was appointed to repair the house; Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, a domestic help; Sazzad’s assistant Badal; carpenter Shaniram Mandal, and maids Estema Khatun Minu and Parvin. On July 10, 2006, the High Court upheld the death penalty of five convicts and acquitted carpenter Shaniram Mandal of the charges. Later, four of the convicts filed a leave-to-appeal with the Supreme Court against the High Court order that was granted by the Appellate Division on April 26, 2009.
Another convict, Shahidul, filed a jail appeal. The Appellate Division started the hearing on the appeals on March 29 last and concluded the hearing on April 11.
