Tareque's plea for scrappping trial rejected by High Court

The High Court yesterday rejected a plea filed by sacked Rab official Lt Col (retd) Tareque Sayeed Mohammad for scrapping the trial against him in a Narayanganj seven-murder case.

A bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain passed the order after concluding hearing the petition on March 13.

There is no legal bar for the trial court to continue the trial proceedings of the case against Tareque Sayeed following the HC order, Deputy Attorney General Shaikh AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir told The Daily Star.

Tareque's lawyer Golam Kibria told reporters that his client would move an appeal before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against the HC order.

Earlier on March 7, a judge of another HC bench expressed unwillingness to hear the petition of Tareque Sayeed.

On April 27, 2014, Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and his four associates, and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver were abducted. Their bodies were later found floating in the Shitalakkhya river.

Selina Islam, wife of victim Nazrul, filed a case with Fatullah police on April 28, 2014, and 11 days later, Bijoy Kumar Paul, a relative of Chandan Sarker, filed another case.

In February this year, Tareque filed the petition with the HC praying to it to scrap the trial proceedings against him in the case filed by Bijoy.