Aug 21 Cases Ex-magistrate summoned
A Dhaka court yesterday summoned a former additional chief metropolitan magistrate to appear before it on January 13 to narrate what he knows about the August 21 grenade attack cases.
The ex-magistrate, AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, recorded a confessional statement of Harkat-ul Jihad chief Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan on April 7, 2011 in the cases.
Mufti Hannan, in his confessional statement, had implicated BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and some BNP top leaders.
Meanwhile, the defence yesterday completed cross examination of former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Maj Gen (retd) Sadik Hasan Rumi.
Twenty four people, including President Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and hundreds of Awami League activists and leaders were injured in a grenade attack on an AL rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
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