Deposition of PWs not held in Sylhet
A court here yesterday could not take deposition of prosecution witnesses in the case filed under Explosive Substances Act following grenade attack on former Biritish High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury near the shrine of Hazrat shahjalal (RA).
Additional District and Sessions Judge-V Md Belayet Ullah deferred the date for recording statements of the prosecution witnesses to June 30 as the prime accused Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan could not be produced before the court. However, the four other accused in the case were produced in the court.
Three people were killed and 70 others, including Anwar Choudhury, injured in the grenade attack after Juma prayers on the premises of the mosque beside the shrine on May 21, 2004.
After the incident, two cases (one for murder and another under Explosive Substances Act) were filed.
In the murder case, Sylhet Divisional Speedy Trail Tribunal awarded death penalty to Mufti Hannan and two others on December 23, 2008.
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