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HEARING-EXPLOSIVE-RAMNA BATAMUL
Three PWs testify in Ramna Batamul explosive case
DHAKA, May 22, 2019 (BSS) – Three more prosecution witnesses (PWs)
including a physician testified in the case filed under Explosive Substances
Act over 2001 Ramna Batamul blast incident, where 10 people were killed.
Judge Abu Jafar Md Kamruzzaman of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 after
examining the witnesses, adjourned the hearing till tomorrow.
The three new prosecution witnesses are Central Police Hospital
physician Ashraf Hossain, assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Ahsal Ali of Rupsha
Police Station, Khulna, and ASI Anwar Hossain of Rajoir Police Station of
Madaripur. They testified as PW 32, 33, and 34, and were cross examined by
the defence afterwards.
Ten people were killed as several bombs were blasted in the Barshabaran
programme (traditional programme to welcome the first day of Bengali New
Year) on April 14, 2001. Then sub-inspector Kabir Hossain of Ramna Police
Station filed the case over the incident.
CID on November 29, 2008, filed two supplementary charge sheets in two
cases, one for murder and another under explosive substances act, against 14
people including banned militant outfit Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI)
chief Mufti Abdul Hannan. Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 framed charges
against 14 including Mufti Hannan in the case lodged under explosive
substance act over Ramna Batamul carnage on September 14, 2014.
Dhaka 2nd additional metropolitan sessions’ judge court on June 23,
2014, sentenced eight people including Mufti Hannan to death and six others
to life imprisonment in the murder case lodged over the incident.
The other death-row-convicts are Mawlana Akbar Hossain, Mufti Abdul Hai,
Hafez Jahangir Alam Badar, Mawlana Abu Bakar, Mufti Shafikur Rahman, Mawalana
Tazuddin and Arif Hasan.
Apart from these, Hafez Mawlana Abu Taher, Mawlana Sabbir, Hafez Yahia,
Mawlana Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Mawlana Abdur Rouf and Mawlana
Shahadat Ullah Jewel were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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