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SHAZNEEN CASE

Cross-examination of Shehzi ends

COURT CORRESPONDENT
Cross-examination of Shahzreh Haq Shehzi, fourth prosecution witness in the Shazneen case and sister of the victim, by lawyers of all the six accused ended yesterday.
Judge Kazi Rahamat Ullah of the Second Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression, Dhaka, then adjourned the hearing till today.
Lawyers of three of the accused --Hasan, Minu and Parvin-- crossexamined Shehzi for about three and a half hours yesterday.
Earlier, she was cross-examined by lawyers of the three other accused Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, Shaniram and Badal.
Shehzi told the court yesterday that Shahid was taken to the place of occurrence on September 27, 1998
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for 'demonstration' and that she was at her office at that time.
"In my statement of October 5, 1998 to the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, I said that on April 2, 1998, my elder sister Simeen Hossain, our children, Shazneen and I went to visit Marina Tea Garden at Kulaura in Sylhet. And in the morning of April 3, Shazneen looked very upset and told us that a serious incident had taken place on April 1 at their Gulshan residence in Dhaka," Shehzi said during crossexamination.
Shehzi also said that they had decided to report the April 1incident involving Hasan to their parents on April 24, 1998. But they waited till May 2 as the health condition of their parents was not good following the killing of Shazneen.
Meanwhile, lawyers of Shahid and Shaniram moved two bail petitions for them. The prosecution
opposed it.
The court, however, fixed today for order on the issue.
The court also directed the prosecution to produce another prosecution witness before it today.
Shazneen Tasnim Rahman, 15, the youngest daughter of Latifur Rahman, Chairman of Transcom, was raped and murdered at their Gulshan residence on April 23, 1998.
All the six accused --now in the jail custody-- were produced before the court yesterday.
Special public prosecutors (PPs) Arfan Uddin Khan, ABM Sharfuddin Khan Mukul, Mahbub Ahmed and assistant PP Anisur Rahman appeared for the state. Advocates Mosharraf Hossain Kajal, Mohammad Hanif, Mizanur Rahman, MA Kamrul Hasan Khan Aslam and Abdus Salam Bhuiyan represented the accused.