Four Shibir activists sentenced to death in eight-murder case in Ctg
Friday, 28 March 2008
CHITTAGONG, Mar 27 (UNB): Four Islami Chhatra Shibir activists Thursday were sentenced to death and three to life-term imprisonment in the sensational Bohaddarhat eight-murder case in the port city.
The condemned convicts are M Azam, Sazzad Khan, Alamgir Kabir alias Baitta Kabir and M Solaiman. They were also fined Tk 50,000 each.
The lifers are Enamul Haque, Abdul Qaiyum and Habib Khan. They are also to pay Tk 50,000 each in fines or serve one more year in jail.
After examining 42 witnesses to the deadly gun-attack on Chhatra League activists, the court of 2nd Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ekramul Haq pronounced the verdict, acquitting 13 other leaders and activists of the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The acquitted are Mesbaul Kabir, the then President of Shibir city unit, Secretary Saiful Islam, Vice-President Azizur Rahman, Organising Secretary Miah M Toufiq, M Ilias, Abdul Hakim, Abdul Hamid, Bazle Ahmed, Bayezedur Rahman, BDR Selim, joint Secretary Rezaur Rahman Mufti, Iqbal Hossain and Nesar Ahmed.
Only three of them--Ilias, M Azam and Alamgir Kabir--were in the dock during pronouncement of the verdict.
According to the prosecution, gunmen halted a microbus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at the Bohaddarhat crossing and opened fire on them on July 12, 2000.
The shooting left all the eight in the two vehicles dead on the spot.
Six of them were activists of the BCL, the student wing of Awami League, while two others drivers of the vehicles.
The deceased were Jahangir Alam, Hasibur Rahman Helal, Rafiqul Islam Sohel, Azizul Islam, Abul Kashem, Jahangir Hossain and CNG and microbus drivers Zahid and Monu Miah.
BCL leader Anwar Hossain, who is now serving 10 years in jail in an arms case, had filed a case in this connection.
The condemned convicts are M Azam, Sazzad Khan, Alamgir Kabir alias Baitta Kabir and M Solaiman. They were also fined Tk 50,000 each.
The lifers are Enamul Haque, Abdul Qaiyum and Habib Khan. They are also to pay Tk 50,000 each in fines or serve one more year in jail.
After examining 42 witnesses to the deadly gun-attack on Chhatra League activists, the court of 2nd Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ekramul Haq pronounced the verdict, acquitting 13 other leaders and activists of the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The acquitted are Mesbaul Kabir, the then President of Shibir city unit, Secretary Saiful Islam, Vice-President Azizur Rahman, Organising Secretary Miah M Toufiq, M Ilias, Abdul Hakim, Abdul Hamid, Bazle Ahmed, Bayezedur Rahman, BDR Selim, joint Secretary Rezaur Rahman Mufti, Iqbal Hossain and Nesar Ahmed.
Only three of them--Ilias, M Azam and Alamgir Kabir--were in the dock during pronouncement of the verdict.
According to the prosecution, gunmen halted a microbus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at the Bohaddarhat crossing and opened fire on them on July 12, 2000.
The shooting left all the eight in the two vehicles dead on the spot.
Six of them were activists of the BCL, the student wing of Awami League, while two others drivers of the vehicles.
The deceased were Jahangir Alam, Hasibur Rahman Helal, Rafiqul Islam Sohel, Azizul Islam, Abul Kashem, Jahangir Hossain and CNG and microbus drivers Zahid and Monu Miah.
BCL leader Anwar Hossain, who is now serving 10 years in jail in an arms case, had filed a case in this connection.