Schoolgirl Risha Murder: Lone accused indicted
A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against Obaidul Khan, the lone accused in a case filed over last year's killing of Suraiya Akter Risha, a student of Willes Little Flower School in the capital.
The trial will begin on May 8, it said.
Obaidul, now in jail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Judge Abul Kashem of the Eighth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court read out the charges to him.
Risha, who was studying in class eight, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on August 28 last year, four days after she was stabbed allegedly by her stalker, Obaidul, in front of her school at Kakrail.
The murder case was then filed against Obaidul with Ramna Police Station.
Obaidul was arrested in Domar upazila of Nilphamari district with the help of locals a week after Risha was stabbed.
Hailing from Miradangi village in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur, he used to work at a tailoring shop in the city.
Ali Hossain, an inspector of the police station, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.
In the charge sheet, he said he had found proof of the murder charge brought against Obaidul while investigating the case, and so the accused should be tried.
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