Security tight around HC bench delivering judgment on jail killings case

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A security parapet Tuesday put up vigil in front of a High Court (HC) Division Bench that continued delivering judgment on jail appeals along with death references in the gruesome 1975 jail killings case, reports UNB.

The HC bench comprising Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury and Justice M Ataur Rahman Khan began spelling out the judgment Monday after closing long-drawn legal arguments from both the defence and the prosecution lawyers.

Over three decades ago, on November 3 in 1975, Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh government in exile during the Liberation War, Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister, M Mansur Ali, finance minister, and AHM Qamaruzzaman, minister of home affairs, relief and rehabilitation, were gunned down inside the Dhaka Central Jail by a raiding cabal of army-men.

Nearly four years before, on October 20, 2004, the trial court sentenced three rankers to death and awarded life imprisonment to 12 midlevel army officers for the bloodletting. It had acquitted four politicians and an army officer in the long-awaited verdict of the historic Jail Killings Case.