The accused in the 21 August grenade attack cases possess been punished per frail and hearsay proof because the witnesses did not elaborate who had thrown the grenades all the blueprint thru the attack, the High Court docket (HC) mentioned as we speak (1 December) all the blueprint thru its commentary of the choice.
“Moreover, no investigation officer mentioned who had equipped the grenades of their charge sheets,” the HC mentioned after scrapping the decrease court docket verdict in the two cases filed over the 21 August grenade attack and acquiting all convicts, including BNP’s Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman and customary negate minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.
After the choice announcement, Mohammad Shishir Manir mentioned, “The trial completed used to be unlawful on epic of it used to be now not per the legislation.
“The court docket mentioned there used to be no collaboration between any of the witnesses. The conviction used to be based mostly mostly entirely on hearsay proof per testimonies,” he added.
“For this function, the court docket rejected the death reference appeals and acquitted the final accused, including Tarique Rahman and Lutfozzaman Babar, declaring them innocent,” Shishir further mentioned.
When asked whether the court docket had made any observations, he mentioned the court docket noticed that there used to be no proof of anyone having viewed or witnessed the incident firsthand.
“The court docket furthermore remarked confessional statements taken from the accused possess been extracted thru torture,” he added.
Shishir furthermore mentioned Mufti Hannan had given two confessional statements.
“We had argued there used to be no precedent for convicting anyone based mostly mostly entirely on a 2nd confession in the 400-twelve months history of the Indian subcontinent. On the recent time, the court docket mentioned that the 2nd confession he [Hannan] made used to be later retracted, and as such, there used to be no factual foundation for this confession,” he added.
