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Blogger Rajib murder: Verdict on appeals Apr 2

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Published: 08:06, 27 March 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Blogger Rajib murder: Verdict on appeals Apr 2

Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider

Staff Correspondent: The High Court (HC) has fixed April 2 for its verdict on the death reference and appeals filed by the convicts in the murder of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.

A High Court bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Md Jahangir Hossain set the date for pronouncing the verdict on Monday.

Deputy Attorney General Zahirul Haque Zahir and Assistant Attorney General Atiqul Haque Selim represented the State in the court.

On January 9, the HC kept the murder case waiting for verdict after concluding hearing on the death references and separate appeals filed by the convicts challenging their sentences handed by the trial court.

Hearing on the case started on November 7 last year.

Blogger Ahamed Rajib Haider, an architect by profession, also an activist of Shahbagh movement demanding death penalty to war criminals, was hacked to death at Pallabi in the capital on February 15, 2013.

On December 31, 2015, the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka handed down death penalty to two people and different jail terms to six others, including the chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), for killing Rajib.

Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, 45, chief of ABT, was found guilty of provoking Rajib's murder through his sermons and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

Seven other convicts -- Redwanul Azad Rana, Faisal Bin Nayem alias Dweep, Maksudul Hasan alias Anik, Ehsan Reza Rumman, Nafis Imtiaz, Nayem Sikdar Irad and Sadman Yasir Mahmud -- were students of North South University in 2013. Of them, Rana, the main suspect in the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, is absconding.

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