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DATE-JUDGEMENT-KOTALIPARA
Verdict in Kotalipara helipad bomb planting case tomorrow
DHAKA, March 22, 2021 (BSS) – A special tribunal is scheduled to
pronounce tomorrow its judgement in a case lodged over planting bomb at the
temporary helipad on Sheikh Lutfor Rahman Government Ideal College ground to
kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000.
Judge Abu Jafar Md Kamruzzaman of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on March
11 set the date as both the prosecution and defence concluded their arguments
in the case on that day.
The accused in the case are-Md Azizul Haque alias Shanewaj, Md Lokman,
Md Eusuf, Mochahab Hossain, Sheikh Md Enamul Haque, Md Mofijur Rahman, Md
Mahmud Ajhar, Md Rasheduzzaman, Md Tarek, Md Wadud Sheikh, Md Anisul Islam,
Sarwar Hossain Miah, Mawlana Amirul Islam and Mawlana Rafikul Islam Khan.
According to the case documents, army men recovered a 76-kg powerful
bomb on July 21, 2000, from the premises of Sheikh Lutfor Rahman Government
Ideal College when a podium was being made for the Prime Minister’s rally.
Then sub-inspector Nur Hossain of Kotalipara Police Station filed the
case under explosive substances act. ASP Abdul Kahhar Akand on November 15,
2001, filed charge-sheet in the case and the court on November 21, 2004,
framed charges against the accused.
A total of 34 witnesses out of 50 were examined by the court in the
case.
BSS/CORR/MHR/FI/ 1925 hrs