A Dhaka court on Monday set June 14 for submitting the probe report in a case lodged over the escape of two militants, who have been sentenced to death, from police custody on court premises.
The date for submitting the report was fixed on Monday in the case. However, as the investigation officer failed to submit on Monday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Afnan Sumi fixed the new date.
Death-row convicts Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, members of banned militant outfit Ansar-al Islam, were whisked away by their associates by beating police and spraying some chemical on their eyes at Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court arena on November 20, 2022.
Court inspector Md Julhash later filed the case with Kotwali police station. In the case, seven to eight others were named as unknown suspects.
Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim were convicted in the murder of publisher Foisal Arefin Dipon.
Dipon was brutally hacked to death at the Jagriti Prokashony office on the second floor of Aziz Super Market in Shahbagh on October 31, 2015.
A murder case was filed at Shahbagh police station two days later against unidentified assailants.