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HEARING-CASE-MURDER-TAVELLA
Next hearing in Cesare Tavella murder trial Apr 18
DHAKA, April 01, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today adjourned till April
18 the hearing in the case lodged over murder of Italian national Cesare
Tavella in 2015.
Dhaka metropolitan session judge Imrul Qayes set the date as the defence
cross examined witness Dr Shafikul Islam of United Hospital and failed to
conclude today.
Tavella, 50, then project manager of Profitable Opportunities for Food
Security (Proofs), a project of Netherlands-based organisation ICCO
Cooperation, was gunned down by unidentified assailants on the footpath of
road number 90 in Gulshan-2 on September 28, 2015.
A Dhaka court on October 25, 2016, framed charges against BNP leader MA
Qaium , his brother M A Matin and five others.
According to police, Qaium ordered the killing and his brother Matin
hatched the plot. The other five accused are Tamjid Ahmed alias Rubel, Russel
Chowdhury, Minhajul Arefin alias Bhaigna Russel, Sakhawat Hossain and
Bhangari Sohel.
Of the accused, all but Qaium and Sohel are now behind bars.
BSS/CORR/JUB/MHR/IJ/1835 hrs