SC to form bench Sunday

Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin will form a bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday to hear the regular appeal in Bangabandhu murder case.
SC Registrar Mohammad Shaukat Hossain disclosed this to reporters yesterday.
After the formation of the bench, the hearing will begin on the appeals filed by five condemned accused in the Bangabandhu murder case.
The summer vacation of the SC which was started on August 30, ended yesterday and the court will resume normal activities on Sunday.
On a prayer by the prosecutor, the SC has already fixed October 5 for holding the hearing on the appeal in the case of the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The Appellate Division accepted the leave to appeal of five convicts of Bangabandhu killing case on September 23, 2007.
Then the accused filed regular appeal within the stipulated time.
The concise statement on the appeal of the case was submitted with the relevant branch of the SC on August 23.
Holding the hearing of the appeal in the Bangabandhu murder case was not possible earlier for the lack of adequate number of judges in the Appellate Division.
On November 8, 1998 Dhaka Session Judge Golam Rasul handed down death sentences to 15 persons in this case.
Later, the High Court delivered divided judgements after the hearing of death reference on December 14, 2000.
Justice M Ruhul Amin confirmed death sentence of 10 accused while Justice ABM Khairul Haq retained the punishment of all 15 accused.
Later, the third bench of Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim confirmed death sentences of 12 accused and acquitted three persons.
The accused whose death sentences were retained are Lt Col (sacked) Syed Faruq Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Lt Col (retd) Mahiuddin Ahmed, Lt Col (retd) Abdur Rashid, Lt Col (retd) Shariful Haq Dalim, Lt Col (retd) Noor, Lt Col (retd) Aziz Pasha, Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda, Maj (retd) AKM Mahiuddin Ahmed (lancer), Risaldar (retd) Moslem Uddin, Lt Col (retd) Rashed Chowdhury and Col (retd) Mazed.
Of them, confined Syed Faruq Rahman, Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mahiuddin Ahmed and AKM Mahiuddin Ahmed filed leave to appeal against the verdict.