The Bangladesh’s top courtroom bench will listen an attraction within the 2004 hands haul case on October 18, including to the concerns of the rustic’s Opposition – the Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday celebration (BNP) and its best friend, the Jamaat-e-Islami.
Those guns have been allegedly introduced from China for the Assam separatist group, ULFA. Two of the convicts are useless.
Best functionaries of the BNP-JAMAAT executive, together with two ministers, have been discovered concerned and later convicted for involvement within the sensational case.
In Bangladesh, if a decrease courtroom sentences an individual to demise, the judgment is tested through the top courtroom.
The case paperwork and judgment have reached the top courtroom whilst a number of convicts within the case have filed separate appeals with the courtroom difficult the sooner verdict in opposition to them.
On January 16, the demise reference and attraction of the accused sentenced to demise have been indexed at the Top Courtroom’s time table.
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THE 2004 ARMS HAUL CASE
In April 2004, when the BNP-Jamaat coalition used to be in energy within the nation, an enormous consignment of hands used to be seized from the CUFL Ghat within the port town of Chittagong.
Ten vans have been coated as much as elevate the consignment. Following the restoration, two circumstances have been filed with the police in Karnaphuli beneath the Fingers Act and the Particular Powers Act.
On January 30, 2014, the Chattogram Metropolitan Classes Pass judgement on Courtroom and Particular Tribunal-1 Pass judgement on SM Mojibur Rahman sentenced 14 other people, together with two ministers of the BNP-JAMAAT coalition, to demise beneath the Particular Powers Act. Beneath the Fingers Act, the 14 have been sentenced to existence imprisonment.
On February 4, 2014, the 514-page verdict within the two circumstances used to be revealed.
Two of the convicts, Jamaat Amir and previous agriculture minister Motiur Rahman Nizami, walked to the gallows when convicted within the 1971 conflict crimes trials for atrocities in opposition to Bengalis in collaboration with the Pakistan Military. Any other convict – a former most sensible intelligence reputable, Abdur Rahim – died of Covid-19. The manager of an army wing, Paresh Barua, additionally convicted within the case, has no longer appealed.
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Apparently, on Wednesday, Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma credited the present Bangladesh premier and Awami League Leader, Sheikh Hasina, for taking ok steps that helped curb militancy and terrorism in Assam.
Lauding the top minister’s efforts, Sarma mentioned the crackdown through the Bangladesh executive at the rebel staff United Liberation Entrance of Asom (ULFA) within the nation has “drastically helped Assam”.
The attraction will flip the focal point again at the energetic patronage to gunrunning and terrorism all the way through the BNP-JAMAAT rule between 2001 and 2006.
For the reason that Chittagong hands seizure used to be adopted through the fatal grenade assault on an Awami League rally inside of 4 months – an assault that almost killed Sheikh Hasina, it uncovered the unholy alliance Tarique Rahman held with the pro-Pak Jamaat birthday celebration to wreck the secular polity of the rustic.
It is going to additionally flip the lighting fixtures directly to the BNP’s de-facto leader, Tarique Rahman, who has been dwelling in London for over a decade to evade punishment after conviction within the 2004 grenade assault on Sheikh Hasina’s rally that killed virtually 30 Awami League leaders and activists. The ones interesting the demise sentence, together with former junior house minister Lutfor Zaman Babar, have been shut confidantes of Tarique who loved a detailed courting with Pakistan’s secret agent company ISI.
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