Court Correspondent :
Verdict in the case filed on the charge of attempt to kill incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to be delivered on October 29.
On completion of arguments from the prosecution and the defence,the Forth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday fixed the date to pronounce the judgment.
Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of the court passed the order hearing the arguments in the case.
Before that, the court recorded the statements of 12 prosecution witnesses including the complainant and Investigation Officer of the case.
According to the case statement, on August 10, 1989, activists and leaders of Freedom Party allegedly launched an attack on Sheikh Hasina’s the then residence at Dhanmondi’s Road 32. Freedom Party members Kajol and Kobir with 10-12 men attacked Hasina’s residence hurling bombs and firing gunshots.
While leaving the place, they chanted the slogan “Farukh-Rashid Jindabad”.
Following the incident, Zahurul Islam, a security guard of the residence, filed two cases-one for plotting to kill Sheikh Hasina and other for hurling bombs, with Dhanmondi Police Station.
In 1997, eight years after the attack, Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) submitted the charge sheet against 19 persons including Freedom Party leaders and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s murderers Lt Col (retired) Syed Farukul Islam, Lt Col (retired) Abdur Rashid and Maj (retired) Bazlul Huda on the charge of attempt to murder and another case was lodged under the Explosives Substances Act.
On July 5, 2009, charges were framed against 16 accused. Four of the accused- Sohel alias Freedom Sohel, Golam Sarwar Mamun, Joj Miah and Syed Nazmul Maksud Murad are at present in the jail. However, four accused- Humayun Kabir, Mizanur Rahman, Khandokar Amirul Islam and Md Shahjahan alias Balu were freed on bail.
Two others- Zafar Ahmed and H Kabir are on the run while two of the accused – Gazi Liakat Hossain and Rezaul Islam Khan died earlier. Syed Faruk and Bazlul Huda have been executed in the Bangabandhu murder case.
Verdict in the case filed on the charge of attempt to kill incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to be delivered on October 29.
On completion of arguments from the prosecution and the defence,the Forth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday fixed the date to pronounce the judgment.
Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of the court passed the order hearing the arguments in the case.
Before that, the court recorded the statements of 12 prosecution witnesses including the complainant and Investigation Officer of the case.
According to the case statement, on August 10, 1989, activists and leaders of Freedom Party allegedly launched an attack on Sheikh Hasina’s the then residence at Dhanmondi’s Road 32. Freedom Party members Kajol and Kobir with 10-12 men attacked Hasina’s residence hurling bombs and firing gunshots.
While leaving the place, they chanted the slogan “Farukh-Rashid Jindabad”.
Following the incident, Zahurul Islam, a security guard of the residence, filed two cases-one for plotting to kill Sheikh Hasina and other for hurling bombs, with Dhanmondi Police Station.
In 1997, eight years after the attack, Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) submitted the charge sheet against 19 persons including Freedom Party leaders and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s murderers Lt Col (retired) Syed Farukul Islam, Lt Col (retired) Abdur Rashid and Maj (retired) Bazlul Huda on the charge of attempt to murder and another case was lodged under the Explosives Substances Act.
On July 5, 2009, charges were framed against 16 accused. Four of the accused- Sohel alias Freedom Sohel, Golam Sarwar Mamun, Joj Miah and Syed Nazmul Maksud Murad are at present in the jail. However, four accused- Humayun Kabir, Mizanur Rahman, Khandokar Amirul Islam and Md Shahjahan alias Balu were freed on bail.
Two others- Zafar Ahmed and H Kabir are on the run while two of the accused – Gazi Liakat Hossain and Rezaul Islam Khan died earlier. Syed Faruk and Bazlul Huda have been executed in the Bangabandhu murder case.
