Jail Killing Case
SC adjourns hearing till January 15
The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till January 15 the hearing on an appeal filed against a High Court verdict that acquitted six former army personnel in the jail killing case.
The court passed the order during hearing on a petition filed on December 11 by the government to exempt it from issuing notice to Dafadar (dismissed) Marfat Ali Shah and Dafadar (dismissed) Abdul Hashem Mridha to face the trial.
Last year, the government filed the appeal with the apex court challenging the HC verdict in the case filed for killing four national leaders -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, AHM Quamruzzaman and Captain Mansur Ali -- inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.
In November this year, it submitted a statement to the SC, praying for upholding the lower court verdict that gave death penalty to three former army personnel and life term imprisonment to 12 others.
In 2004, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka sentenced to death Risalder (retd) Muslemuddin, Dafadar (dismissed) Marfat Ali Shah and Dafadar (dismissed) Abdul Hashem Mridha.
On August 28, 2008, the HC upheld the capital punishment of Muslemuddin and acquitted Marfat and Hashem. It also acquitted Farooq, Shahriar, Mohiuddin and Bazlul Huda.
On January 27, 2010, Farooq, Shahriar, Mohiuddin and Bazlul Huda were executed in the Bangabandhu assassination case.
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