Actor Sohel murder: Finish trial by 6 months, SC says

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today directed the lower court concerned to finish within six months the trial proceedings of the case filed over the murder of actor Sohel Chowdhury.

The apex court also extended by six months its chamber judge's order that stayed a High Court order granting bail to accused Ashish Roy Chowdhury, Assistant Attorney General Md Mozibur Rahman Samrat told The Daily Star.

A bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order following a petition filed by the government challenging the HC's bail order.

Ashish's lawyer Shah Monjurul Hoque told The Daily Star that his client has been implicated in the case as he was an owner of Trump Club, where Sohel Chowdhury was killed.

Rab on April 5 last year arrested Ashish from his Gulshan home in Dhaka. They also seized 17 bottles of foreign alcohol from his residence.

Following the seizure, Jahangir Alam, deputy assistant director of Rab-10, filed a case with Gulshan Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.

On December 18, 1998, Sohel Chowdhury was shot dead at Trumps Club in Abedin Tower, in Dhaka's Banani area.