A Dhaka court yesterday deferred to June 27 the arguments of the Eskaton double murder case against Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan's son Bakhtiar Alam Rony following a defence time petition.

Judge Md Al Mamun of the First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka passed the order after Rony's lawyer Kazi Nazibullah Hiru submitted a petition seeking adjournment of the hearing.

Earlier on May 8, the same court withdrew the decision to deliver the verdict, scheduled for that date, to hear further arguments in the case.

During the trial, the Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka recorded statements of 23 prosecution witnesses including that of the complainant of the case. Later, the case was transferred to the court.

On July 21, 2015, detectives pressed murder charges against Rony and cleared Rony's driver from the charges. The court framed charges against Rony on March 6 in 2016.

According to the charge sheet, a drunken Rony indiscriminately fired gunshots from inside his car in Dilu Road area of New Eskaton in Dhaka on April 13, 2015.

Rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim and auto-rickshaw driver Yakub were both injured in the incident. Hakim succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 15. Yakub also died on April 23.

Hakim's mother Monowara Begum filed the murder case on April 15, 2015.

On July 2, 2015, a Dhaka court sent Rony to jail after rejecting his bail petition.

Rony's two friends, who were inside the car during the shooting, gave judicial statements before magistrates narrating how Rony had shot dead the two individuals.