Court orders police to publish ad for 14 fugitives to appear
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered police to publish advertisements in two Bangla newspapers directing 14 fugitives to appear before it by April 28 in connection with the murder of Biswajit Das.
Metropolitan Magistrate Harun-Ur Rashid passed the order to publish the advertisements in the daily Samakal and the daily Manabzamin naming 14 activists of the ruling party-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).
Three months after Biswajit was killed on December 9 last year, police charged 21 BCL activists with the murder. Of the accused, seven are in jail and 14 are in hiding.
Another Dhaka court on April 2 accepted the charge sheet against the accused and issued arrest warrants against the fugitives.
Biswajit Das, a tailor by profession, was passing by Bahadur Shah Park on December 9 last year when a road-blockade programme was in progress.
Mistaking Biswajit for one of those responsible for the blockade, the BCL activists chased him and ignoring his pleas that he was an innocent pedestrian, they hacked him to death.
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