CJ to constitute bench for hearing today
October 4, 2009
Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin is likely to constitute a bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today for the hearing on the appeals in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case.
The hearing is scheduled to take place tomorrow.
Five convicts in this case — dismissed army personnel Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Bazlul Huda, who are now behind bars, — filed the appeals with the SC in the last week of October 2007 against their death sentences pronounced by the HC.
Both the Appellate and High Court (HC) Divisions of the Supreme Court will also reopen today after a 38-day annual vacation.
SC Registrar Shawkat Hossain told The Daily Star yesterday that the appeals filed by the five convicts would be included in the Appellate Division’s cause list for hearing after the constitution of the bench.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam termed ‘unprecedented’ the filing of an application by a convict requesting the SC not to allow the state counsels to place arguments during the hearing since they delayed in submitting the concise statements against the appeals.
The application has been submitted on behalf of condemned prisoner Syed Farooq-ur Rahman.
Mahbubey Alam said there are precedents that the SC had allowed appellants to submit concise statements even before a day of the hearing. The SC, however, will take the decision on the petition of Farooq Rahman, he added.
On August 23, chief state counsels for Bangabandhu murder case submitted five concise statements against the appeals as the summary of the case to the SC.
The next day, the SC chamber judge fixed October 5 (Monday) as the date for the hearing on the appeals.
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