Narayanganj seven-murder: Full HC verdict out

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Published : 17:59, Nov 19, 2018 | Updated : 23:14, Nov 19, 2018

HC's full verdict on Narayanganj seven-murder case released. FILE PHOTOThe High Court has released its full verdict on the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case, which upheld the death penalty to 15 convicts.
The 1568-page verdict was made available on the HC website on Monday (Nov 19).
Prior to the release, justices Bhabani Prasad Singh and Mustafa Zaman Islam, who delivered the verdict, signed it on Nov 15.
The High Court on August 22, 2017, pronounced the judgment in the two cases lodged over the gruesome murders.

The convicts, whose death sentences were upheld, are RAB officials Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain, Lt Commander SM Masud Rana, Habildar Md Emdadul Haque, Md Arif Hossain, Lance Naik Hira Miah, Lance Naik Belal Hossain, Sepoy Abu Taiyab Ali, Constable Md Shihab Uddin, SI Purnendu Bala, Sepoy Abdul Alim, Sepoy Mohiuddin Munshi, Sepoy Al Amin and Sepoy Tajul Islam.





The court, however, commuted death sentence handed down to another 11 people by the trial court, to life imprisonment.
Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge court on January 16, 2017, sentenced 26 persons, including main accused Noor Hossain, dismissed RAB officials Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander SM Masud Rana, to death in the sensational seven-murder case. The court also sentenced nine other accused to different terms in jail.
All the documents of the case were sent to the High Court on January 22. The High Court on February 8 received the appeals of the convicts.
Twenty convicts including Noor Hossain, Tareque Sayeed, Arif Hossain, SM Masud Rana, Md Emdadul Haque, Belal Hossain, Abu Taiyab, Shihab Uddin and Mortaza Zaman Charchil filed the appeals against their sentences.
Narayanganj City Corporation councilor Nazrul Islam along with his three companions and driver were kidnapped by a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-11 on April 27 in 2014.
Besides, senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver Ibrahim were also picked up by the same team as they witnessed the abduction of Nazrul and his associates.
Subsequently, bodies of all seven of them were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river.
Two cases were filed in this connection — one by Nazrul’s family and the other by Chandan’s family.

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