The family Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed, who was killed in 2012, will file an appeal against the High Court that confirmed the death penalty for five activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League.
Zubair's elder brother Abdullah Al Mamun confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune on Wednesday.
Earlier on Wednesday, the High Court confirmed the death penalty for five Chhatra League activists.
The court also upheld the life sentence for two accused and acquitted four others, who were initially sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court some three years ago.
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While talking to the Dhaka Tribune after the verdict, He said: "We are not happy with the verdict.
"Four people have been acquitted. We will appeal against it."
The death-row convicts are Khandaker Ashiqul Islam alias Ashik, Jahid Hasan and Khan Mohammad Rois alias Sohan of zoology at the same university, Rashidul Islam Raju of philosophy, and Mahbub Akram of government and politics. All of them except for Raju are on the run.
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On January 8, 2012, Zubair, an honours final year student of English at JU, was stabbed to death by members of an opposing faction of the ruling Awami League’s student front over their previous animosity and political rage.
On February 23, 2014, Ashik, Sohan, Akram and Ishtiaq Mehbub Arup, who was, too, sentenced to life imprisonment by the lower court, escaped from the courtroom soon after it had rejected their bail pleas and sent them to jail.
Sources said most of the fugitive convicts had fled to Malaysia and are active on different social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram.
Friday, March 28, 2025
