A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred the hearing on charge framing against nine people linked to banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam in a case filed over the murder of blogger Nazimuddin Samad in 2016.
Dhaka's Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Mujibur Rahman set June 24 for the next hearing.
At one stage of the hearing, the accused told the court that they did not have a lawyer. At that time, the accused verbally appealed for time by appointing a lawyer.
The court granted the accused time for the last time and set the new date.
Public Prosecutor Golam Sarwar Khan confirmed the matter.
On April 6, 2016, militants shot and hacked Nazimuddin, a student at Jagannath University, to death in Laxmibazar of Old Dhaka.
The accused included Syed Ziaul Haque Zia, the military commander of the banned group, which is responsible for over a dozen fatal attacks on war crimes trial campaigners, secularist writers, and bloggers since 2013.
