Full verdict of Ahsanullah Master killing released

The High Court today released full text of its verdict in Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master killing case that confirmed death for six persons and life term for nine.

The court released the 182-page judgement after its judges Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath signed it.

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The HC on June 15 confirmed the death penalty of six persons, including a central Jubo Dal leader, for killing Ahsanullah Master, a decade after a trial court sentenced 22 people to death and six others to life term for the 2004 murder.

Now the government can move an appeal before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against the part of HC verdict that acquitted 11 persons accused in the case.

The convicts can also move appeal before the apex court against the portion of the HC verdict that convicted and sentenced them in the case.

The HC commuted capital punishment of seven others to life imprisonment, upheld life term of two and acquitted 11 of the charges against them. It disposed of the appeals of two others as they died during the trial of the much-talked-about political killing.

Of the 15 convicts, 10 are now in jail and five on the run.

Assailants killed Ahsanullah, a freedom fighter, and Omar Faruq Ratan, a student, in a staccato burst of fire on a rally of Swechchhasebak League, a pro-AL body, at Noagaon near the MP's house in Tongi on May 7, 2004.