Two accused get bail
A Chittagong court yesterday granted bail to two accused in the Himu murder case.
The court passed the order after the accused -- Shah Selim Tipu and Md Shahadat Hossain Saju -- surrendered before the court and sought bail, said Ayub Khan, special public prosecutor (PP) of the tribunal.
Meanwhile, defence lawyers moved a time petition for another accused -- Jahedul Islam Shawon -- on the grounds of sickness, he said On July 16, the case was shifted to the tribunal from Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court, Chittagong 4.
Earlier on April 4, Tipu and Saju got bail from the High Court till disposal of the rule, while Shawon got bail on February 3 for one year, said the PP.
The tribunal also fixed August 5 as the next date for continuing cross-examination of witness Jawed Ali Chowdhury, general secretary of anti-drug organisation Shikar, said the court sources.
The other two accused in the case -- Mahboob Ali Khan Danny and Tipu's son Junaid Ahmed Riad -- are on the run, said the court sources.
On April 27, 2012, Himadri Majumder Himu, an A-level student of Summerfield School and College and also a member of Shikar, was brutally beaten, dogs were unleashed upon him, and then he was pushed off a four-storey building, owned by Tipu, in Panchlaish Residential Area of Chittagong city centering Himu's anti-drug campaign role in the locality.
Himu succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in the capital on May 23, 2012.
On May 24, 2012, a murder case was filed with Panchlaish Police Station accusing the five persons.
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