Withdrawal of Murder Case

Hearing adjourned till July 4

31 May 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

The High Court (HC) yesterday adjourned till July 4 the hearing of a petition challenging the withdrawal of a murder case in Rajshahi against nine persons including Ruhul Quddus Babu, who was recently appointed as an HC judge. An HC bench of Justice Sheikh Rezowan Ali and Justice Habibul Gani set July 4 for hearing the petition upon an adjournment prayer by Attorney General Mahbubey Alam. The Attorney told the court that there was no urgency for hearing this petition, as the case was filed in order to politically harass Ruhul, the then JSD backed Chattra League leader of Rajshahi University (RU) and others. Mahbubey said Ruhul was nominated as an HC judge by the president on April 11, but he was yet to take oath for his office. The revision petition was filed against an order of a Rajshahi court that allowed a government prayer on April 8 this year for withdrawal of the case filed on charge of killing Aslam Hossain, an Islami Chhatra Shibir leader of RU, in 1988. Nayeb Ali, the plaintiff of the case, and Aslam's father Zinnat Ali filed the petition on May 2. The petitioners' lawyer advocate Tajul Islam told the court that there was no bar to hearing the petition against the withdrawal of the case against any judge. Aslam was killed at his room in Nawab Abdul Latif Hall of RU on November 17, 1988. The same day, Nayeb Ali, a classmate of the victim, filed a murder case with Matihar Police Station in Rajshahi against Ruhul and 17 others in this connection.