UNB, Dhaka :
A court here will deliver its verdict on August 20 in a case filed over the unearthing of 76 kg explosives near the rally venue of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 2000.
Judge Mamtaz Begum of Dhaka’s Speedy
Trial Tribunal-2 fixed the date on Thursday on completion of the law-point arguments from the both sides.
The explosives were unearthed on July 20, 2000 in front of a shop adjacent to Sheikh Lutfur Rahman Govt High School where Hasina was supposed to address a rally on July 22.
Another 40-kg heavy bomb was also recovered by an Army bomb expert squad from near the Kotalipara helipad on July 23.
Nur Hossain, sub-inspector of Kotalipara Police Station, filed a case under the Explosive Substances Act in connection with the incident.
Police pressed charges against 16 people, including executed Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, on April 8, 2001. On June 29, 2009, police submitted a complementary chargesheet implicating nine more people. On September 2010, the case was transferred to the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka from where the case documents were sent to the tribunal-2.
A court here will deliver its verdict on August 20 in a case filed over the unearthing of 76 kg explosives near the rally venue of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 2000.
Judge Mamtaz Begum of Dhaka’s Speedy
Trial Tribunal-2 fixed the date on Thursday on completion of the law-point arguments from the both sides.
The explosives were unearthed on July 20, 2000 in front of a shop adjacent to Sheikh Lutfur Rahman Govt High School where Hasina was supposed to address a rally on July 22.
Another 40-kg heavy bomb was also recovered by an Army bomb expert squad from near the Kotalipara helipad on July 23.
Nur Hossain, sub-inspector of Kotalipara Police Station, filed a case under the Explosive Substances Act in connection with the incident.
Police pressed charges against 16 people, including executed Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, on April 8, 2001. On June 29, 2009, police submitted a complementary chargesheet implicating nine more people. On September 2010, the case was transferred to the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka from where the case documents were sent to the tribunal-2.
