The High Court has fixed Thursday for the announcement of the verdict on a rule issued in 2017, questioning the trial proceedings of a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.
The High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order on Tuesday after concluding a hearing in this regard.
Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon stood for one accused and the petitioner of the case,Rakib alias Rakibur Rahman, while Additional Attorney General SM Munir, accompanied by Assistant Attorney General Mizanur Rahman, represented the state during the hearing.
Following a petition filed by Rakib, another High Court bench on August 23, 2017 stayed the trial proceedings of the case and issued a rule asking the state why trial proceedings against Rakib should not be scrapped, according to the state lawyer.
The accused Rakib, who is now on bail, claimed that he was 10 years old when the incident took place. Therefore the case should run against him under the Children Act 2013.
On September 24 this year, the state took the initiative to begin hearings over the issued rule.
A decade after the incident, a freedom fighter named Moslem Uddin made a complaint on September 21, 2014.
The court ordered the police station concerned to record the complaint as an FIR. The police submitted their charge sheet against 27, including Rakib on May 17, 2015. The court formed charges against the accused on July 10, 2017.
