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HEARING-CASE-DIPON-MURDER
Dipon murder trial hearing adjourned till April 29
DHAKA, March 25, 2020 (BSS) – An anti-terror tribunal today adjourned
till April 29 the hearing of the case lodged over murder of publisher Foysal
Arefin Dipon in 2016.
Judge Mujibur Rahman of Dhaka Anti-Terror Tribunal passed the order as
police refrained from producing the accused from jail amid corona fear.
The tribunal on October 13, framed charges against eight members of
banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in the case.
The tribunal on March 19 accepted the charge sheet filed in the case and
issued arrest warrants against fugitive accused ABT leaders sacked army major
Syed Ziaul Haque and Akram Hossain.
Investigation officer and detective branch assistant police commissioner
Fazlur Rahman on November 15 in 2018, submitted the charge sheet against the
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 already have given confessional statements in the
case.
Jagriti Prokashoni publisher Dipon was hacked to death at his Aziz Super
Market office on November 31, 2016. His wife Rajia Rahman filed the case on
that day with Shahbagh police station.
BSS/CORR/MHR/FI/ 1615 hrs