The scream will think rapidly on filing an charm with the Appellate Division tense the High Court verdict that annulled the decrease court docket verdict and acquitted your total accused from the 21 August grenade attack cases, acknowledged Attorney Total Md Asaduzzaman on the present time (1 December).
“The decision will most likely be made after reviewing the reasoning on the help of the judgment and the instructions supplied. I bet an charm want to be filed,” Asaduzzaman informed Prothom Alo this afternoon.
Earlier within the day, the High Court scrapped the decision of the decrease court docket within the 2 cases filed over the sensational 2004 attack, acquitting all convicts, collectively with BNP’s Performing Chairperson Tarique Rahman and vulnerable scream minister for dwelling affairs Lutfozzaman Babar.
The bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the judgment, after hearing the appeals and dying references within the extinguish and explosives cases connected to the attack that had killed 24 folks and left a total bunch injured.
The court docket furthermore declared your total trial court docket cases of the case illegal, collectively with the price sheet.
Talking to reporters after the judgment, defence attorney Mohammad Shishir Manir acknowledged, “The trial conducted used to be illegal because of it used to be now not in accordance with the law.
“The court docket acknowledged there used to be no collaboration between [the testimonies of] any of the witnesses. The conviction used to be essentially essentially based mostly completely on the rumour testimonies of witnesses.”
In its observation, Shishir acknowledged, the court docket furthermore talked about that the witnesses did now not give an explanation for who had thrown the grenades actual by blueprint of the attack and handiest described the incident. “Apart from, no investigation officer within the price sheet talked about who had supplied the grenades.”
Sharing more observations of the court docket, the attorney acknowledged the court docket observed that there used to be no evidence of somebody having considered or witnessed the incident firsthand.
“The court docket furthermore observed that confessional statements taken from the accused had been extracted by blueprint of torture,” he added.
On 21 August 2004, the grenade attack used to be implemented concentrating on a rally of the Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Bangabandhu Avenue within the capital. The attack, which took save actual by blueprint of the tenure of the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami coalition executive, killed 24 folks collectively with then Awami League ladies’s affairs secretary Ivy Rahman.
