Blast Case Against Opposition
Fakhrul appeals to stay proceedings
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday filed an appeal with the High Court for staying the proceedings of a bomb blast case filed against him and others.
Shahbagh police filed the case against Fakhrul and 28 other leaders and activists of the 18-party alliance in connection with two bomb explosions inside the Secretariat during hartal hours on April 29.
On August 26, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court took into cognisance the charges against all accused of the case for its trial after rejecting a petition submitted by the accused to not take the charges into cognisance.
Fakhrul filed the appeal yesterday challenging the August 26 order of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge.
Fakhrul's lawyer Mahbub Uddin Khokon told The Daily Star that according to the appeal, two unknown motorcyclists hurled the “bombs” inside the Secretariat as per the case statement, but the investigation officer of the case failed to trace them.
The IO did not even mention names and whereabouts of the two motorcyclists, who are the prime accused, but brought charges against the opposition leaders and activists as the abettors, and therefore the charges against the abettors cannot be taken into cognisance, he said, citing the appeal statement.
The court fixed September 18 for hearing on charge framing against the 29.
The charge sheeted accused of the case are now out on bail.
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