A special tribunal in Sylhet has fixed March 14 for hearing statements from lawyers of three fugitive accused in blogger and science writer Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
Lawyers for two accused – Abul Khair and Shafir Rahman Farabi – participated in the hearing on Thursday. Later, the court fixed the new date for hearing statements from the lawyers of accused Abul Hossain, Foysol Ahmed and Harun-or-Rashid.
Judge Md Nurul Amin Biplob of the Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Tribunal fixed the new date, said plaintiff’s counsel Samar Bijoy Shekhar.
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On Wednesday, the prosecution continued placing its statement during the second day of closing arguments.
Ananta Bijoy Das, a science writer linked to Mukto-Mona website, was hacked to death by militants in Sylhet city on May 12, 2015, within three months of the murder of Mukto-Mona blog founder Avijit Roy in Dhaka.
Ananta’s elder brother Ratneshwar Das filed the murder case the same day. The case was later transferred to the CID.
Al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Islam (previously Ansarullah Bangla Team) claimed credit for the murder.