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| Kazi Aref Killing : 3 To Hang Tonight |
| 2016-01-07 |
| [Bangla New Age] Three people are set to be hanged at Jessore Central Jail tonight for killing Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader Kazi Aref Ahmed, also one of the main organisers for the war of independence, and four other leaders of the party. Jessore superintendent of police Anisur Rahman said that Safayet Hossain of Rajnagar village under Mirpur upazila in Kushtia, Anwar Hossain of Kursha village at the upazila and Rashedul Islam alias Akbar of Kursha village would be executed tonight. JSD leaders Kazi Aref, Lokman Hossain, Yakub Ali, Ismail Hossain and Samaresh Mandol were rubbed out at a rally at Kalidaspur Government Primary School ground under Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia on February 16, 1999. On August 30, 2004, the District and Session Judge's Court in Kushtia sentenced 10 people to death and 12 people to life term. The High Court, in 2008, acquitted one of the condemned convicts and 10 life-termers of the charges. The Appellate Division on November 19, 2014 rejected petitions filed by the convicts for a review of a verdict it pronounced on August 7, 2011 upholding the High Court verdict. The clemency prayers of the three condemned convicts were also rejected by the president. The other condemned convicts are still in hiding. |
| Posted by:Fred |