Man remanded for bomb attack on Taposh
March 9, 2010
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed Sohel Rana on a 10-day remand in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh in October last year.
Second Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Zafar Mohammad Samsuzzaman passed the remand order after Assistant Commissioner Akbar Hossain of the Detective Branch produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.
CID gets 3 months more for Aug 21 probe
March 4, 2010
The Criminal Investigation Department on Thursday got three more months to submit the probe report in one of the two August 21 grenade attack cases.
ANM Bashir Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court Dhaka allowed the time after the investigation officer (IO) sought four more months to submit the report in the case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
SC hears review pleas for second day
January 25, 2010
The Supreme Court concluded the hearing for the second consecutive day on Monday petitions filed by five detained convicts in Bangabandhu murder case seeking review of its judgment confirming their death sentence.
Abdur Razzak Khan, counsel for convict Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, placed his argument before the four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Tafazzul Islam.
‘Trial of war criminals to go ahead’
December 19, 2009
The government will inform the international community about the justification of holding a trial of war criminals, foreign secretary said on Saturday.
Briefing journalists at the foreign ministry, Mohamed Mijarul Quayes brushed aside media reports that said “Pakistan has been lobbying to stop” the trial of the war criminals.
Copy of Bangabandhu case verdict released
December 17, 2009
The Supreme Court judgment on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case was released on Thursday as five judges of the Appellate Division have signed the copy of the verdict.
The death row convicts in the murder case now will get the copy of the SC judgment.
Nation commemorates martyred intellectuals with rich tributes
December 14, 2009
President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the martyred intellectuals at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial at Mirpur in the capital marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Monday.
President Zillur Rahman placed wreaths at the memorial first. Then came Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, few minutes after the president, to pay homage to the martyrs.
5 killers’ execution on disposal of review petitions
November 23, 2009
The execution of five condemned convicts of Bangabandhu murder case who are in condemned cells will remain stayed until their review petitions are disposed of at the Supreme Court.
Anisul Huq, the chief counsel for the state in Bangabandhu murder case, told reporters at his Supreme Court Bar chamber that if the SC upheld this verdict after dismissing the review petition the jail authorities would ask the convicts whether they will seek presidential mercy.
4 Bangabandhu killers to seek president’s clemency
November 22, 2009
Four of the convicts of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case, now languishing in the Dhaka Central Jail, will seek president’s clemency.
Lt Col Syed Farooq Rahman, Maj Bazlul Huda, Maj (Lancer) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Lt Col (Artillery) Mohiuddin Ahmed expressed their willingness to file the petitions while Lt Col Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan is yet to take any decision in this regard, senior officials at the jail told The Daily Star.
Bangabandhu trial final verdict set for Nov 19
November 12, 2009
The Supreme Court has set Nov 19 for the final verdict on Bangabandhu murder trial as it ended hearing appeals by death convicts on Thursday.
The defence counsels finished their reply to the prosecution’s arguments at the 29th day’s hearing on Thursday.
Prosecution wraps up arguments
November 11, 2009
The prosecution wrapped up their arguments in Bangabandhu murder appeals hearing at Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The five member Appellate Division bench, headed by justice Mohammed Tafazzal Islam, began the hearing session at around 9:45am.