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Attempted Murder of Humayun Azad

Adjudicate case in 6 months

HC directs trial court

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday directed a lower court to adjudicate within six months the case filed for the murder attempt on Dhaka University Prof Humayun Azad a decade ago.
So far, only four out of the 49 prosecution witnesses have testified against the five accused, all operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
As the proceedings move at a snail’s pace, the High Court ordered both the prosecution and defence to remain heedful so that the case is disposed of in six months.
The HC came to know of the delay while hearing a bail petition of a detained accused, Mizanur Rahman Minhaz, which says there is no significant progress of the trial.
Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah passed the directives and denied bail to Minhaz who confessed to the murder attempt before court in 2011.
On February 27, 2004, miscreants hacked Prof Azad when he was trying to catch a rickshaw home from Ekushey
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Boimela on the Bangla Academy premises.
The next day, Azad's brother Manjur Kabir filed an attempted murder case with Ramna Police Station against some unnamed people.
The eminent Bangla professor recovered after being treated for 26 days in Dhaka and 47 days in Bangkok, Thailand. But he died on August 11,2004 during a trip to Germany.
In connection with the attack, police charged five persons, including Minhaz, on November 15, 2007, said Assistant Attorney General Gazi Md Mamunur Rashid.
The four others are JMB's then chief Shaekh Abdur Rahman and activists Ataur Rahman Sunny, Nur Mohammad Babu alias Shamim, and Anwar Alam alias Anwar Hossain alias Khokan.
Of them, Abdur Rahman and Sunny were executed in 2007 for killing two judges of Jhalakathi in November 2005. The rest are now in jail.
The Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka is dealing with the case.