Aug 21 Attack Cases
MK Alamgir, Yusuf to give deposition May 27
Awami League leader Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and CID Inspector Abu Hena Md Yusuf will give their statements on May 27 as prosecution witnesses before a Dhaka court in connection with August 21 grenade attack cases.
Earlier in the day, the court completed recording cross-examination of Sharif Faruque Ahmed, a former sub-inspector of Motijheel Police Station, also a complainant of the cases.
Fixing the date, Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 yesterday asked former state minister for planning MK Alamgir and Yusuf to give their deposition in connection with the cases on the day.
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) included MK Alamgir and Yusuf in the charge sheets as the prosecution witnesses on July 3 in 2011 since they were present at the rally on Bangabandhu Avenue when the grenade attack was carried out in 2004.
So far, the court recorded the statements of 61 prosecution witnesses in the cases.
Twenty-six of 52, including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, now in custody, were produced before the court while seven other accused including former Dhaka City Corporation ward councillor Ariful Islam Arif, now on bail, were also present at the court.
Twenty-four people, including Awami League leader Ivy Rahman, were killed and around 200 others injured in the grisly grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. The then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.
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