Execution of verdict demanded

1 February 2009, 18:00 PM

RU Correspondent

Teachers, students and employees of the Geology and Mining Department of Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday demanded execution of the verdict in Prof Taher Ahmed murder case. They raised the demand at a memorial meeting held in the department's seminar room marking the third death anniversary of Prof Taher. Prof Taher, a senior teacher of the department, was killed on February 1, 2006. Three days later, the body was recovered from an underground sewerage tank behind his campus residence. Prof Golam Sabbir Sattar Tapu read out a keynote paper on life and works of Prof Taher at the meeting with Prof Dr Kamrul Hassan Majumder, chairman of the department, in the chair. Speakers expressed their deep concern over delay in execution of the court verdict and demanded punishment to the mastermind of the murder.