HC acquits five convicts
The High Court (HC) yesterday acquitted five convicts in BNP leader Abdul Hamid Moru murder case in Rajshahi.
Earlier in 2006, Rajshahi Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced three of the convicts to death, and two were given life term imprisonment.
The HC delivered the verdict after granting appeals filed by the convicts, now in custody, against the judgment of the divisional trial tribunal.
The HC, however, did not give any decision about two other fugitive convicts, who were given life term imprisonment by the tribunal, as they did not appealed against their conviction, said Deputy Attorney General Md Salim.
On November 9, 2003, a group of masked miscreants assassinated Rajshahi district BNP vice-president Abdul Hamid by slitting his throat in Ghospara area in Rajshahi city.
Abdul Wasek, a relative of the BNP leader, filed a case against 17 people with Boalia Police Station on that day.
October 18, 2006, Rajshahi Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced Rajshahi district Workers Party leader Ali Khwaja M Abdul Mazid, Jahangir Alam and Shukur Ali to death, and awarded life term imprisonment to Nawshad, Zaidul Islam, Asadul and Abdur Razzak Sarkar alias Art Babu.
The tribunal also acquitted the 10 accused in the case.
Mazid, Jahangir, Shukur, Nawshad, and Razzak filed separate appeals with the HC challenging their conviction in 2006. But Zaidul and Asadul are absconding.
The HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Emdadul Haque Azad delivered the verdict after hearing on the appeals yesterday.
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