Aug 21 Grenade Attack

Babar appeals for bail

23 May 2010, 18:00 PM

Court Correspondent

Detained former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar yesterday filed an appeal seeking bail with a Dhaka Sessions Court in connection with August 21, 2004 grenade attack case. Counsels for the BNP leader filed the appeal with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court against the rejection order of the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on May 5. After the hearing, Judge (in charge) Mohammad Ismail Hossain fixed June 1 for full hearing on the appeal. Babar was shown arrested in the case on October 26 last year and later he was remanded on several times. The brutal grenade attacks took place when Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina was addressing a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. Hasina narrowly escaped the attack but 23 of her party leaders and workers were killed and over 300 were maimed. On August 3 last year, a Dhaka court ordered the inspector general of police to reinvestigate the cases after the prosecution filed petitions for identifying the persons who had procured and supplied the grenades used in the carnage.