BDR carnage: Verdict announcement adjourned till Monday

Staff Correspondent: The High Court (HC) has adjourned the announcement of its verdict on the death reference and appeals in BDR carnage case till Monday.

The court will resume announcing the verdict at 10:30am on Monday.

A three-member special bench started announcing the judgment at 11:00am on Sunday.

Justice Md Shawkat Hossain and Justice M Abu Zafor Siddique read out the part of 10,000 pages of judgment. 

Seventy-four people, including 57 army officials, were massacred during the BDR mutiny on February 25-26 in 2009 at the Pilkhana headquarters of the paramilitary force, later renamed Border Guard Bangladesh.

The death reference and the appeals of the convicts were filed with the HC months after a Dhaka court announced the verdict on November 5, 2013.

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