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Charge framing in Dipan murder trial on Sept 5
DHAKA, Aug 22, 2019 (BSS) – An anti-terror tribunal today set September 5
to hold hearing on charge framing against eight members of banned militant
outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in case lodged over murder of publisher
Faisal Arefin Dipan in 2016.
Acting Judge Farhana Ferdous of Anti-Terror Tribunal set the date as the
regular judge Mojibur Rahman is on leave, court official Ruhul Amin told BSS.
The tribunal on March 19 accepted the charge sheet filed in the case and
issued arrest warrants for fugitive accused sacked Army Major Syed Ziaul
Haque and Akram Hossain.
Investigation officer and detective branch assistant police commissioner
Fazlur Rahman on November 15 filed the charge sheet against eight accused.
The accused are- sacked Army Major Ziaul Haque, Moinul Hasan Shamim, Md
Abdus Sabur, Khairul Islam, Md Abu Siddique Sohel, Md Mozammel Hossain
Saimon, Md Sheikh Abdullah, and Akram Hossain alias Hasib.
Of the eight, six have been arrested on different occasions and they
already gave confessional statements.
Jagriti Prokashoni publisher Dipan was hacked to death in his Aziz Super
Market office on November 31, 2016. His wife Rajia Rahman filed the case on
that day with Shahbagh Police Station.
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