SC to hear long pending applications of Bangabandhu's killers

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The Supreme Court has set August 7 to hear applications of the condemned prisoners seeking leave to appeal to overturn the High Court order that confirmed their capital punishment for killing of the country's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, reports UNB.
Court sources said Chief Justice M Ruhul Amin has constituted a 3-member bench of the Appellate Division to hear the long pending applications of the condemned killers.
Those who filed the applications are Lt Col (sacked) Syed Farooq Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Lt Col (retd) Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major (retd) Bazlul Huda and Lt Col (retd) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed deported to Dhaka from USA on June 18 and sent to jail.