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| 10-truck arms haul case verdict heads to HC |
| 2014-02-06 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The Chittagong Court has sent the verdict of ten-truck arms haul cases that ordered to hang fourteen persons including Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... and ex-state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar for confirmation of the High Court. Confirming the Dhaka Tribune, Chittagong Metropolitan Public Prosecutor Kamal Uddin Ahmed said the verdict of the sensational cases was sent from Chittagong with high security around 4.30pm on Wednesday. The verdict is likely to be received on Thursday by the concerned section of the HC. The Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal 1 delivered the judgment under the Special Powers Act, 1974. The law stipulates: "Where a Special Tribunal passes a sentence of death, the proceedings shall be submitted forthwith to the High Court Division and the sentence shall not be executed unless it is confirmed by that HC Division." "An appeal from any order, judgment or sentence of a Special Tribunal may be preferred to the High Court Division within thirty days from the date of delivery or passing thereof," the Act of 1974 says. |
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