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Verdict given ignoring red eyes

CJ on Bangabandhu murder case

Staff Correspondent
Observing that the judiciary has always played its due role during moments of crisis in the country, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said the trial court had given its judgment in the Bangabandhu murder case ignoring the red eyes of the then government, which had tried to block the trial.
"The then government had issued the indemnity ordinance to protect the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and also awarded them. The way for the trial of the case opened through cancellation of the ordinance. At the initial stage, there was no witness in the case. Kazi Golam Rasul, the then district judge, had given the judgment in the case overcoming many hurdles and ignoring their red eyes," he said.
The chief justice made the comments at a voluntary blood donation programme on the Supreme Court Auditorium premises on the occasion of the National Mourning Day. Judges, lawyers and officials of the SC and the High Court attended the programme.
Justice SK Sinha said that after the lower had delivered the verdict, the death reference of Bangabandhu murder case went to the High Court for confirmation of death sentence of the convicts, but the HC faced many hurdles.
Many dramas took place in constituting the HC bench for hearing and disposing of the case, he said.
“Then the trial proceedings were finished. I am lucky as I was a member of the bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in hearing the case and in giving its final judgment," Justice SK Sinha said.
The SC also gave judgment in the case filed for the killing of four national
leaders inside the Dhaka Central Jail on Novembers, 1975, he added.
The chief justice said the SC scrapped the eighth amendment to the constitution, which had split the SC to make the judiciary paralysed.
The apex court had also given judgments cancelling the fifth and 13th amendments to the constitution, he said, adding that an appeal against the HC verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment to the constitution is pending with the Appellate Division.
The chief justice said the judiciary had always played its due role during the transitional periods of the nation andwouldnotbacktrackin future.
Around 100 people have voluntarily donated blood at the programme, Sabbir Faiz, deputy registrar of the HC, toldThe Daily Star.