DHAKA, Feb 7, 2021 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today acquitted all seven people convicted by a lower court in a case lodged over murder of one Badal Sarder in village Vitabaria under Bhandaria upazila in Pirojpur in 1998.
A High Court division bench comprising Justice Krishna Debnath and Justice ASM Abdul Mobin passed the order, allowing jail appeals filed by the convicts.
Jhalakathi District and Sessions Judge on July 1, 2015, had convicted and sentenced Sahid Shikdar, Dulal Sikder, Badal Shikder and Nizam Shikder to death and Salam Sarder, Harun Sikder , Minu Sikder alias Sahadat to life imprisonment in the case.
“Of these convicts, one was behind bars during the time the crime was committed. But one witness in his testimony implicated him for the crime and he was convicted based on that deposition. The High Court today has passed its order considering couple of such things,” defence counsel Sheikh Ali Ahmed Khokon told BSS.
Badal was hacked to death on September 1, 1998. His father later filed the case.