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Aug 21 Attack Cases

Charge-framing hearing now on October 7

Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed October 7 for hearing on charge framing against the accused in two cases filed in connection with the grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally in the city on August 21,2004.
Responding to two separate time petitions filed by the lawyers for the defence and the prosecution, Judge Masdar Hossain of the Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 fixed the date.
The prosecution lawyers in their petition stated that they had recently sent a list of IB lawyers to the law ministry and also appealed to the ministry to appoint them (lawyers) for assisting the public prosecutors in moving the cases.
They also appealed to the court *to defer the hearing on the charge framing of the cases until they get a response from the law ministry.
On the other hand, the defence lawyers stated in their petition that the proceedings of two cases filed in connection with a same offence could not run simultaneously.
The case filed for blasting grenades at the AL rally on August 21, 2004 was transferred to the Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on September 21 for quick disposal.
Earlier, a murder case filed in connection with the grenade attacks was transferred to the same tribunal for quick disposal.
After receiving the case docket, the tribunal on September 21 fixed September 24 (yesterday) for hearing on charge framing against 22 people including Harkatul Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and detained former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu.
Of the accused, Pintu, Mufti H a n n a n a n d his brother Mohibullah alias Mafizur Rahman alias Ovi and 10 others are now in jail. They were produced before the court yesterday.
Pintu's brothers Maulana Tajuddin and Maulana Liton, A n i s u I M u r s a I i n, M a h i b u I Muttakin, Iqbal, Maulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Howlader, Jahangir Alam Badar and Khalilur Rahman have been absconding since the filing of the cases.
Of the arrestees, Hannan, Bipul, Ovi, Abu Sayeed, Bulbul, Arif Hossain. Jahangir and Sabuj gave confessional statements before the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Assistant Superintendent Fazlul Kabir, also the investigation officer (IO) of the cases, submitted the charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka, on June 11 this year, showing 412 people as prosecution witnesses.
T\venty-three people were killed and 200 others injured in the grenade attacks on the AL rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21,2004.