Ramna blasts: Hearing on death reference resumes Mar 14
The High Court today fixed March 14 for resuming hearing on the death reference and appeals in the sensational Ramna Batamul carnage case.
If a lower court sentences any person to death in a case, its judgment is examined by the HC through hearing arguments for confirmation of the death sentence. The case documents and judgment reaches as death reference to the HC from the lower court in seven days after the latter delivers the verdict.
Today, the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim was set to hear concluding arguments from Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on the death reference and appeals Ramna Batamul carnage case, as placing arguments by both the state and defence counsels has already been finished earlier.
But, the judges fixed March 14 for hearing arguments from the attorney general as time has been sought on behalf of him in this regard, Deputy Attorney General Forhad Ahmed told The Daily Star.
He also said the HC might conclude the hearing on March 14.
On January 8, the HC started hearing on the death reference and appeals in the case.
A Dhaka court on June 23, 2014 handed down death penalty to eight militants of Harkat- ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji), including its top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan Munshi, for killing 10 people in the attack on the Chhayanaut function during Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Ramna Batamul in 2001.
Six other militants of the banned Islamist outfit were sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in the blasts.
Eight of the condemned accused filed nine separate appeals with the HC challenging the trial court verdict on them.
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