N'Ganj 7 Murders: CJ wants quick death reference
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday instructed the officials concerned of the High Court to prepare on priority basis the paper book of death reference in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case.
The chief justice would assign a High Court bench to hear the death reference after the paper book was prepared, Additional Registrar of the HC Subbir Faiz told The Daily Star.
The death reference of the seven-murder case reached the HC on January 22.
If a lower court sentences any person to death, its judgement is examined by the HC through hearing arguments for confirmation of the death sentence. The case documents and judgement reach as death reference to the HC from the lower court in seven days after the verdict is pronounced.
A paperbook contains all the details of a case, trial proceedings, statements, evidence, verdicts and other documents. The book is necessary for the HC to hear and dispose of a death reference or an appeal.
Earlier on January 16, the District and Sessions Judge's Court in Narayanganj found 35 people, including 25 former Rab officials and expelled ruling Awami League man Nur Hossain, guilty of abduction and murder of seven people and destroying evidence in April 2014.
The court handed down death penalty to 26 people, including 16 former Rab (Rapid Action Battalion) men, and jailed nine others for various terms.
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