21 Aug Case
Hearing on charge framing March 5
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed March 5 to decide whether it will frame charges against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and 51 others accused in the August 21 grenade attack cases.
Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 set the date for scrutinising the discharge petitions submitted by 33 out of the 52 accused.
Among them, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mojaheed are now in jail while Tarique and 18 other accused are absconding.
The court was scheduled to decide on the charge framing yesterday.
All the 32 detained accused including Babar and Mojaheed were produced before the court prior to its resuming the proceedings.
Former Dhaka City Corporation ward councillor Ariful Islam Arif, now on bail, was also present.
Both the prosecution and the defence set 25 different dates to carry out the hearing on charge framing against the accused.
On October 9, 2011, Syed Rezaur Rahman, chief counsel for the two grenade attack cases, proposed the court to frame charges against all 52 accused, alleging that they had meetings at several places, including the Hawa Bhaban, to plot the grisly blasts in 2004.
Twenty-four people were killed and around 200 others injured in the grisly grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. The then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.
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