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N'ganj 7-murder: HC verdict on death reference today

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Published: 04:17, 22 August 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
N'ganj 7-murder: HC verdict on death reference today

Staff Correspondent: The High Court (HC) will deliver its verdict today (August 22) on the death references and appeals of the convicts in sensational Narayanganj seven-murder cases.

The HC bench of Justice Bhabani Prasad Singha and Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam is expected to deliver the verdict.

After hearing arguments from the prosecution and defence counsels over 33 days, the HC on July 26 had fixed August 13 for delivering the judgment.

But the judges on August 13 deferred delivery of the verdict to August 22 as they could not prepare the judgment on that day.

A court in Narayanganj on January 16 sentenced 26 people including former NCC councillor Nur Hossain and dismissed RAB officials Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana to death in the sensational seven-murder case.

The court of Narayanganj District Sessions Judge Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the verdict amid high security.

Twenty-three, including Nur Hossain and dismissed RAB officials were present on the dock during the pronunciation of the verdict while 12 are on the run.

The other condemned convicts are Mizanur Rahman Dipu, Abdul Alim, Mohinuddin Munshi, Lans Nayek Hira Miah, Sipahi Abu Toiyob, Selim, Sanaullah Sana, Shah Jahan, Jamal Uddin, Asad-uj-jaman Noor, Purnendu Bala, ROG Arif Hossain, Al Amin, Tajul Islam, Enamul, Belal Hossain, Shihab Uddin, Mortuja Jaman Churchill, Ali Mohammad, Abul Basher, Raham Ali, Emdadul Haque.

The court also jailed nine other accused for seven to 17 years’ of imprisonment.

Seven people, including Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, were abducted from the Dhaka-Narayanganj link road on April 27, 2014. Later, their bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya.

A total of 35 people including the main accused Nur Hossain were indicted in the two cases filed over the incident-- one by Nazrul's family and the other by Chandan's family. Of them, 26 are Rab men while eight others are reportedly associates of Nur Hossain.

After the investigation which took almost a year, police pressed charges against Nur Hossain, three senior officers of the Narayanganj-based RAB battalion and 31 others.



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