Dhaka: Bangladesh Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition by a convict in the murder case of the country`s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman challenging the trial on procedural grounds alleging that the prosecution submitted a document to the court beyond the deadline.
The apex court rejected the plea by sacked lieutenant
colonel Faruque Rahman`s lawyer Khan Saifur Rahman who alleged
that the "concise statement" containing the case history was
submitted by the state prosecutors after the expiry of the
deadline.
The defence court order came a day after two former
Bangladesh Army officers, convicted of killing Rahman over 34
years ago, sought re-trial by a military court.
Yesterday, lawyer of another convict and sacked major
Bazlul Huda demanded re-trial by a military court calling the
assassination a part of an "army mutiny" and not the result of
a conspiracy.
Huda`s counsel claimed that his client or other
co-convicts in fact never intended to kill Rehman and the real
culprits would have been unmasked, had this case been tried
under the Army Act.
Rehman, also father of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,
was assassinated along with most of his family members on
August 15, 1975 in a pre-dawn military putsch carried out by a
group of junior Army officers.
Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana survived
the coup as they were abroad at that time.
Bureau Report
