Ten Get Death in CPB Rally Blast Case, Two Acquitted

A Dhaka Court on Monday sentenced 10 people to death and acquitted two others in a case filed over the 2001 bomb attack on a political rally of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) at Paltan Maidan in Dhaka.

Rabiul Alam, the third additional metropolitan sessions court judge of Dhaka, passed the order on Monday.

The convicts are - Mufti Moin Uddin Sheikh, Arif Hasan Sumon, Maulana Sabbir Ahmed, Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid Jahangir Alam Badar, Mohibul Muttakin, Aminul Mursalin, Mufti Abdul Hai, Mufti Shafikur Rahman, and Nur Islam.

Moin Uddin, Sumon, Sabbir and Shawkat are in police custody while the rest are on the run.

The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each.

Besides, it acquitted Md Mashiur Rahman and Rafikul Islam Miraj. Another accused in the case, Mufti Abdul Hannan, was executed in a separate case.

Argument in the case concluded on December 2. Testimonies of 46 witnesses were recorded.

Five CPB activists were killed and 20 others injured in a bomb attack on the party’s rally on January 20, 2001 at Paltan.

The case was closed in December 2003 as investigations found no evidence against the accused people in the case and later in 2005 the case was reopened.

Source: UNB