Abrar murder case death reference reaches High Court
A Dhaka court on December 8 last sentenced 20 people to death and awarded life term to another five
File photo of Abrar Fahad, who was found dead on a staircase of Buet’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall in the early hours of October 7, 2019 Collected
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Publish : 06 Jan 2022, 08:38 PMUpdate : 06 Jan 2022, 08:38 PM
The death reference in the sensational murder case of the BUET student Abrar Fahad has reached the High Court for further proceedings.
Confirming the matter to BSS, Supreme Court spokesperson Mohammad Saifur Rahman said if any lower court sentences any convict to death, the death reference has to be sent to the High Court for its approval, adding: “So, the relevant documents have reached the High Court from the concerned tribunal.”
Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on December 8, 2021, sentenced 20 people to death and awarded life imprisonment to another five in the case.
The court also fined the accused Tk50 thousand each, to suffer one year more behind the bars in default.
The tribunal in its observation had said the convicts tortured and subsequently killed Abrar based on the false allegation of being an activist of Shibir (Islami Chhatra Shibir).
"The brutal incident saddened the people of the whole country. The convicts are being given maximum punishments to stop the repetition of such heinous incident," the court said.
A total of 46 out of 60 prosecution witnesses testified in the case.
Earlier on November 13, 2019, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court took into cognizance the charge sheet in the case filed by the Detective Branch (DB) of police against 25 accused. The case was later transferred to the speedy trial tribunal, allowing a plea of Abrar's father.
BUET students and the varsity authorities found the seemingly lifeless body of Abrar, 22, on the first-floor stairs of Sher-e-Bangla Hall and rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared him dead at around 6:30am on October 7, 2019.
He was brutally beaten to death by a couple of leaders of the then BUET unit of Chhatra League over his posts on Facebook.
Abrar's father Barkatullah filed the case with Chawkbazar police station against 19.
Abrar murder case death reference reaches High Court
A Dhaka court on December 8 last sentenced 20 people to death and awarded life term to another five
The death reference in the sensational murder case of the BUET student Abrar Fahad has reached the High Court for further proceedings.
Confirming the matter to BSS, Supreme Court spokesperson Mohammad Saifur Rahman said if any lower court sentences any convict to death, the death reference has to be sent to the High Court for its approval, adding: “So, the relevant documents have reached the High Court from the concerned tribunal.”
Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on December 8, 2021, sentenced 20 people to death and awarded life imprisonment to another five in the case.
The court also fined the accused Tk50 thousand each, to suffer one year more behind the bars in default.
The tribunal in its observation had said the convicts tortured and subsequently killed Abrar based on the false allegation of being an activist of Shibir (Islami Chhatra Shibir).
"The brutal incident saddened the people of the whole country. The convicts are being given maximum punishments to stop the repetition of such heinous incident," the court said.
A total of 46 out of 60 prosecution witnesses testified in the case.
Earlier on November 13, 2019, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court took into cognizance the charge sheet in the case filed by the Detective Branch (DB) of police against 25 accused. The case was later transferred to the speedy trial tribunal, allowing a plea of Abrar's father.
BUET students and the varsity authorities found the seemingly lifeless body of Abrar, 22, on the first-floor stairs of Sher-e-Bangla Hall and rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared him dead at around 6:30am on October 7, 2019.
He was brutally beaten to death by a couple of leaders of the then BUET unit of Chhatra League over his posts on Facebook.
Abrar's father Barkatullah filed the case with Chawkbazar police station against 19.
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