The High Court has acquitted three condemned convicts and three lifers in the ward commissioner Saidur Rahman Newton murder case.
A bench comprising justices Mohammad Fazlur Rahman and Bhabani Prasad Singha on Tuesday also commuted the punishment of seven other condemned convicts, including top criminal Kala Jahangir, to life-term imprisonment.
After the orders were issued, court in-charge deputy attorney general Bhisma Deb Chakrabarti told reporters that the six convicts were acquitted as the charges brought against them were not proved beyond doubt.
Of the 10 convicts condemned to death by the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on
May 24 2006, 'Abbas' alias Killer Abbas, Ibrahim Khalil and Zakir Hossain Khan were acquitted.
The punishment of other convicts to walk the gallows was commuted to life-term in jail. They are Mohammad Khorsed, Shahadat Hossain, Munir Hossain, Kala Jahangir, Kazi Mohammad Ismail, Kazi Towfiq Alam Pial and Sadequl Islam Chowdhury Sagor. All seven are on the run.
Shawakat Hossain, Nazmul Hasan alias Banga Babu and Kamal Hossain were three of the six lifers who were acquitted by the High Court. The other lifers are Mohammad Aiyub, Jhantu Rasel and Mohammad Rubel Hossain.
The acquittals and the commutations were awarded following plea from nine of the convicts.
Newton, the then BNP-backed commissioner of ward-10 of Mirpur under the Dhaka City Corporation, was shot dead in public in Dhanmondi area on May 10 2002.
His mother Rabeya Begum filed a case with Dhanmondi police station on the same day.
Source : New Age
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