A Dhaka court has taken an initiative to speed up the trial proceedings in the long-pending Dhaka University teacher Humayun Azad murder case filed against members of banned islamist militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
As a part of the initiative, Judge Ruhul Amin of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court asked the prosecution to complete the depositions within November 11.
The court also fixed seven dates for recording the rest of the prosecution depositions from October 19 until November 11. Among the dates, today is the first to be taken depositions in the case.
Additional Public Prosecutor Saiful Islam Helal confirmed this and said “We hope the trial would be completed by December.” According to the case, Humayun Azad, a teacher of DU Bangla department, was attacked and stabbed on February 27, 2004, while returning home from Ekushey Boi Mela in the city.
He died of cardiac arrest during a visit to Munich, Germany on August 12, 2004 and his attempt to murder case was then received as a murder case.
CID Inspector Lutfor Rahman submitted murder charges against five JMB leaders in the case on April 30, 2012.
