Full verdict of Ahsanullah killing released

Published: 7 September 2016, 08:13 AM
Full verdict of Ahsanullah killing released

The full text of the High Court verdict in the Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master killing case has been released.

The 182-page judgment was released on Wednesday after judges Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath signed it.

Earlier on September 1, The HC bench of Justices Obaidul Hassan and Krishna Debnath who upheld the death sentences of six persons for their involvement in the murder.

The death penalty awardees are Nurul Islam Sarkar, Nurul Islam Dipu (fugitive), Mahbubur Rahman Mahbub, Shahidul Islam Shipu (fugitive), Hafiz alias Kana Hafiz (fugitive), ‘Sohag’ alias ‘Saru’.

Apart from retaining the maximum punishment to six, the High Court on June 15 reduced the death penalty of seven to life imprisonment. It upheld the life in jail sentence of another.

The High Court also acquitted 11 others, who were given either the death sentence or life in prison, after hearing their appeals against the sentences.

Ahsanullah Master was shot dead along with another person on May 7, 2004, while addressing a local conference held on a school ground at Tongi. He was a Gazipur politician and then Awami League MP.