The documents of the death sentence of Oishee Rahman, who was awarded capital punishment by a Dhaka court for killing her parents, has reached the High Cour for death reference hearing.
Additional Registrar Md Sabbir Foyez said the court’s Death Reference Section received the verdict's copy and case dockets yesterday.
A trial court’s verdict of capital sentence needs the approval of the High Court before it is executed, which is known as death reference.
A Dhaka court sentenced Oishee to death on November 12 for killing her parents, Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman.
Besides, the court sentenced her friend Mizanur Rahman Rony to two years’ rigorous jail and fined him Tk5,000 for helping Oishee commit the double murder. The court acquitted another accused, Oishee’s friend Jony, of the charges.
Meanwhile, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has ordered the Registrar’s Office to prepare paper books on a priority basis of the death references awarded in the Rajon and Rakib murder cases.
The verdicts in the cases, issued by trial courts in Sylhet and Khulna, was received by the Death Reference Section on November 10. After the paper books are ready, the chief justice will assign a High Court bench to hear the death reference.
On November 8, a Sylhet court sentenced four people to death and one person to life in prison for killing 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajon by brutally torturing him in the city’s Kumargaon area on July 8. The death row convicts are Kamrul Islam, Sadiq Ahmad Moyna, Taj Uddin Badal and Zakir Hossain Pavel.
On the same day, a Khulna court sentenced two people to death for torturing and killing 12-year-old Md Rakibul Islam Rakib in Khulna city’s Tutpara area on August 3. The death row convicts are Md Sharif and Mintu Miah, Sharif’s distant uncle. Sharif was Rakib’s former employer.