Ahsanullah Master.
The High Court will deliver its verdict on June 15 on appeals against the lower court judgment in the Awami League leader Ahsanullah Master killing case.
A bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath fixed the date on Wednesday on completion of hearing on the appeals and death reference, United News of Bangladesh reports.
Moudud Ahmed and Khandker Mahbub Hossain stood for the accused while attorney general Mahbubey Alam and deputy attorney general Rona Nahrin represented the state.
Criminals shot Ahsanullah Master, a former lawmaker, to death at a rally at MA Mazid Miah High School ground in Tongi of Gazipur on May 7, 2004.
Victim’s brother Matiur Rahman had filed a case with Tongi police station against 17 people the following day.
A speedy trial tribunal on April 16, 2005 had sentenced 22 people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Nurul Islam Sarkar, to death and six others to life imprisonment in the murder case.
Of them, 17 are currently behind the bars while two others have already died and the rest nine are on the run.
The convicts later appealed with the High Court against the sentences. The case documents were also sent to the High Court as death reference for its approval.
The hearing on the appeals and death reference began on January 21 this year.
Source: New Age