The convicts in the 21 August grenade attack cases were punished per oldschool and rumour proof because the witnesses failed to clarify who had thrown the grenades at some stage in the attack, the Excessive Court (HC) mentioned this day (1 December) at some stage in its observation of the verdict.
“Moreover, no investigation officer mentioned who had equipped the grenades of their rate sheets,” the HC mentioned after scrapping the lower court verdict in the two cases filed over the 21 August grenade attack and acquiting all convicts, at the side of BNP’s Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman and old mutter minister for dwelling affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.
After the verdict announcement, Mohammad Shishir Manir mentioned, “The trial conducted became illegal because of it became no longer per the legislation.
“The court mentioned there became no collaboration between any of the witnesses. The conviction became primarily based fully fully on rumour proof per testimonies,” he added.
“For this objective, the court rejected the death reference appeals and acquitted the total accused, at the side of Tarique Rahman and Lutfozzaman Babar, declaring them innocent,” Shishir additional mentioned.
When asked whether the court had made any observations, he mentioned the court observed that there became no proof of anybody having considered or witnessed the incident firsthand.
“The court additionally remarked confessional statements taken from the accused were extracted thru torture,” he added.
Shishir additionally mentioned Mufti Hannan had given two confessional statements.
“We had argued there became no precedent for convicting anybody primarily based fully fully on a 2nd confession in the 400-three hundred and sixty five days historical past of the Indian subcontinent. This day, the court mentioned that the 2nd confession he [Hannan] made became later retracted, and as such, there became no factual foundation for this confession,” he added.
