Court Correspondent :
The Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday handed down death sentence to ten people in a case filed over bomb blasts on a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) in 2001 in the capital that left five people dead and 20 others injured.
Judge Robiul Alam of the court delivered the verdict on Monday. Earlier, on December 1, last year, the court set January 20 to pronounce the judgement as the legal proceedings at the court ended on that day.
The death row convicts are: Mufti Moin Uddin Sheikh, Arif Hossain Sumon, Sabbir Ahmed, Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mufti Shafikur Rahman and Nur Islam.
Besides, the court acquitted Rafiqul Islam Miraz and Md Moshiur Rahman in the case as the charges brought against them could not be proved.
Five people were killed and 20 others injured in the bomb attack on a CPB rally in the capital’s Paltan Maidan on January 20, 2001. Then CPB President Manzurul Ahsan Khan filed the case with Motijheel Police Station. But police had given final report in 2003, saying it did not find any credible evidence in the case.
Police in 2005 reopened the case and on November 27, 2013, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Mrinal Kanti Saha submitted charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka against 13 activists of banned extremist outfit
Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami in two cases filed over murder and explosives explosions. Later, the court framed charges in the cases on September 4, 2014.
Of the two cases, one was filed for killing five persons and injuring 50 others, while the other was filed under the Explosive Substances Act. According to the charge sheets, the accused carried out the attack on the pretext that the CPB elements were “atheists.”
The accused were Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami leader Abdul Hannan, Moin Uddin Sheikh, Arif Hossain Sumon, Sabbir Ahmed, Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Md Moshiur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Abdul Hai, Mufti Shafikur Rahman, Rafikul Islam Miraz and Nur Islam.
Of the 13, Mufti Abdul Hannan was executed earlier in another case and his name had been dropped from the charge-sheet. Of the other accused, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Abdul Hai, Shafikur Rahman, Rafikul Islam Miraz and Nur Islam are yet to be arrested.
The Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday handed down death sentence to ten people in a case filed over bomb blasts on a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) in 2001 in the capital that left five people dead and 20 others injured.
Judge Robiul Alam of the court delivered the verdict on Monday. Earlier, on December 1, last year, the court set January 20 to pronounce the judgement as the legal proceedings at the court ended on that day.
The death row convicts are: Mufti Moin Uddin Sheikh, Arif Hossain Sumon, Sabbir Ahmed, Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mufti Shafikur Rahman and Nur Islam.
Besides, the court acquitted Rafiqul Islam Miraz and Md Moshiur Rahman in the case as the charges brought against them could not be proved.
Five people were killed and 20 others injured in the bomb attack on a CPB rally in the capital’s Paltan Maidan on January 20, 2001. Then CPB President Manzurul Ahsan Khan filed the case with Motijheel Police Station. But police had given final report in 2003, saying it did not find any credible evidence in the case.
Police in 2005 reopened the case and on November 27, 2013, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Mrinal Kanti Saha submitted charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka against 13 activists of banned extremist outfit
Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami in two cases filed over murder and explosives explosions. Later, the court framed charges in the cases on September 4, 2014.
Of the two cases, one was filed for killing five persons and injuring 50 others, while the other was filed under the Explosive Substances Act. According to the charge sheets, the accused carried out the attack on the pretext that the CPB elements were “atheists.”
The accused were Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami leader Abdul Hannan, Moin Uddin Sheikh, Arif Hossain Sumon, Sabbir Ahmed, Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Md Moshiur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Abdul Hai, Mufti Shafikur Rahman, Rafikul Islam Miraz and Nur Islam.
Of the 13, Mufti Abdul Hannan was executed earlier in another case and his name had been dropped from the charge-sheet. Of the other accused, Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Abdul Hai, Shafikur Rahman, Rafikul Islam Miraz and Nur Islam are yet to be arrested.
