Court Correspondent :
The verdict in the case filed against 12 members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) over bomb blasts at a CPB rally in 2001 will be pronounced today.
Judge Md Robiul Alam of the Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka will pronounce the verdict. Earlier on December 1, last year, the court fixed the date after completion of arguments on behalf of the prosecution and the defence. The court recorded the statements of 46 prosecution witnesses
including complainant of the case to give the verdict.
Five people were killed and 50 others injured following the bomb attack at a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) in the capital’s Paltan Maidan on January 20, 2001. Later, the then CPB President Monzurul Ahsan Khan filed a case with Paltan Police Station accusing unknown people in connection with the incident.
Investigation Officer of the case and CID Inspector Mrinal Kanti Saha submitted two charge sheets in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on November 27, 2013.
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 attacks on the pretext that the CPB members were “atheists”.
Of the 13 accused, Huji chief Mufti Hannan was executed on the charge of grenade attack on British High Commissioner in Sylhet. Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh, Arif Hassan Sumon, Maulana Sabbir Ahmed, Maulana Shawkat Osman and Md Moshiur Rahman are currently behind bars while Mufti Abdul Hai, Shafiqur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar, Md Nur Islam, Mohibul Mustakin, Anisur Rahman and Rafiqul Alam Miraj have been absconding since the bomb blasts.
Trial of the case filed under the Explosive Substances Act is going on in the same court. Soon after the blasts, police arrested 12 people, but the CID, in its final investigation report, on December 17, 2003, cleared the accused of the charges as no “correct, impartial and reliable” evidences were found against them. Later the Home Ministry ordered a reinvestigation into the incident following an application submitted by the CID in 2005.
The verdict in the case filed against 12 members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) over bomb blasts at a CPB rally in 2001 will be pronounced today.
Judge Md Robiul Alam of the Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka will pronounce the verdict. Earlier on December 1, last year, the court fixed the date after completion of arguments on behalf of the prosecution and the defence. The court recorded the statements of 46 prosecution witnesses
including complainant of the case to give the verdict.
Five people were killed and 50 others injured following the bomb attack at a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) in the capital’s Paltan Maidan on January 20, 2001. Later, the then CPB President Monzurul Ahsan Khan filed a case with Paltan Police Station accusing unknown people in connection with the incident.
Investigation Officer of the case and CID Inspector Mrinal Kanti Saha submitted two charge sheets in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on November 27, 2013.
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 attacks on the pretext that the CPB members were “atheists”.
Of the 13 accused, Huji chief Mufti Hannan was executed on the charge of grenade attack on British High Commissioner in Sylhet. Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh, Arif Hassan Sumon, Maulana Sabbir Ahmed, Maulana Shawkat Osman and Md Moshiur Rahman are currently behind bars while Mufti Abdul Hai, Shafiqur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar, Md Nur Islam, Mohibul Mustakin, Anisur Rahman and Rafiqul Alam Miraj have been absconding since the bomb blasts.
Trial of the case filed under the Explosive Substances Act is going on in the same court. Soon after the blasts, police arrested 12 people, but the CID, in its final investigation report, on December 17, 2003, cleared the accused of the charges as no “correct, impartial and reliable” evidences were found against them. Later the Home Ministry ordered a reinvestigation into the incident following an application submitted by the CID in 2005.
