Hearing adjourned till today

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned till today hearing of the Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case against seven people, including BNP leader MA Quayum and his brother Abdul Matin.

The court  passed the order as the prosecution failed to produce any witness before it yesterday.

Earlier on November 24, the same court recorded statement of Azizul Islam, a prosecution witness.  

The other accused in the case are Tamjid Ahmed Rubel, Russell Chowdhury, Minhajul Arefin, also known as Bhagne Russell; Shakhawat Hossain Sharif, and Sohel alias Bhangari Sohel.

Of them, MA Quayum, also ex-ward commissioner from Badda and a joint convener of Dhaka city BNP, and Bhangari Sohel are shown fugitives while the rest five are now in jail.

Tavella, 50, an aid worker, was killed in Dhaka's Gulshan Diplomatic Zone on September 28 last year. He worked as the project manager of Profitable Opportunities for Food Security (Proofs), a project of the Netherlands-based organisation ICCO Cooperation.

Detectives pressed charges against the seven on June 28 this year.