Hasina murder attempt: HC grants bail to 7

The High Court has granted bail to seven people, who were sentenced by a lower court, in a case filed over the attack on the then opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s convoy in Satkhira’s Kalaroa in 2002.  

A virtual court of Justice Jaman Islam and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir passed the order on Tuesday.  

Additional Attorney General S M Munir confirmed the verdict to Jago News. 

On August 30, 2002, Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader, was returning to Magura after visiting a freedom fighter’s wife in Satkhira when her convoy came under attack in Kalaroa upazila of the district.

Hasina survived the attack but many Awami League leaders and workers were injured along with some journalists.

Kalaroa Mohammad Moslem Uddin, freedom fighter, filed a case against 27 men for the attack which was later dismissed for not being recorded at the police station.

The case was reopened on October 15, 2014 and police pressed charges in court against 50 accused in this connection.

On May 17, 2015, inspector Sheikh Shafiqur Islam, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted charge sheet against 50 people in the case.