Court Correspondent :
The verdict of the case filed in connection with a terrorist during the celebration of Bangla New Year at Dhaka’s Ramna Park in 2001 will now be announced on June 23.
Judge Ruhul Amin of the Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions’ Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order on Monday.
Earlier, on May 28, the court decided to pronounce the verdict of the Ramna Batamul blast case on June 16.
During the deposition, the eighth Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, Abu Hena M Yusuf, submitted a sketch map over the plan of
the blast operation that took place during the Chhayanaut’s Pahela Baishakh celebration on April 14 in 2001, leaving 10 people dead and scores of others injured.
Later, the prosecution completed their arguments on May 18 and demanded capital punishment to the accused. They argued that they had proved the charges brought against 14 top leaders of the banned military outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji).
Over seven and a half years after the Ramna bloodbath, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on November 30, 2008 pressed charges against 14 operatives of Huji, including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan. The court framed charges against them on April 16, 2009.
Police filed two cases about the incident, one for murder and another for explosives explosion. The explosives’ case is still under trial. Charges were framed against 14 people after eight years of the incident.
Of them, nine are in jail and they are Hannan, Akbar Hossain, Arif Hossain Sumon, Shahadatullah Jewel, Sabbir, Shaokat Hossain alias Farid, Abdur Rouf, Abu Taher and Yahia.
Hannan, Akbar and Arif made confessional statements admitting their involvement in the incident of the case.
Accused Tajuddin, Jahangir, Abu Bakr, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman and Mufti Abdul Hai are on the run.
The verdict of the case filed in connection with a terrorist during the celebration of Bangla New Year at Dhaka’s Ramna Park in 2001 will now be announced on June 23.
Judge Ruhul Amin of the Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions’ Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order on Monday.
Earlier, on May 28, the court decided to pronounce the verdict of the Ramna Batamul blast case on June 16.
During the deposition, the eighth Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, Abu Hena M Yusuf, submitted a sketch map over the plan of
the blast operation that took place during the Chhayanaut’s Pahela Baishakh celebration on April 14 in 2001, leaving 10 people dead and scores of others injured.
Later, the prosecution completed their arguments on May 18 and demanded capital punishment to the accused. They argued that they had proved the charges brought against 14 top leaders of the banned military outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji).
Over seven and a half years after the Ramna bloodbath, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on November 30, 2008 pressed charges against 14 operatives of Huji, including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan. The court framed charges against them on April 16, 2009.
Police filed two cases about the incident, one for murder and another for explosives explosion. The explosives’ case is still under trial. Charges were framed against 14 people after eight years of the incident.
Of them, nine are in jail and they are Hannan, Akbar Hossain, Arif Hossain Sumon, Shahadatullah Jewel, Sabbir, Shaokat Hossain alias Farid, Abdur Rouf, Abu Taher and Yahia.
Hannan, Akbar and Arif made confessional statements admitting their involvement in the incident of the case.
Accused Tajuddin, Jahangir, Abu Bakr, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman and Mufti Abdul Hai are on the run.
