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Dhaka, Mar 18 A Dhaka court on Sunday framed charges against senior BNP vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for the Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack, beginning trial in the case.
Twenty-nine others were also indicted at a special court of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1. Judge Mohammad Shahed Nur Uddin set Mar 28 for deposition.
Charge against BNP chief Khaleda Zia's elder son Tarique has been framed in his absence as he has been staying in UK for over three years.
Earlier, charges against 22 were framed during the tenure of last caretaker administration.
At least 24 people died, including senior Awami League leader Ivy Rahman, wife of President Mohammad Zillur Rahman, in a grenade attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's rally in Dhaka on Aug 21 2004.
Hasina narrowly survived the attacks and over 100 others suffered injuries.
Allegations were there that there had been attempts to divert the course of investigation during the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition government. During the last military-backed caretaker government, CID official Fazlul Kabir submitted two chargesheets on June 11, 2008 accusing 22 people of being involved with the attack.
The court on Aug 3, 2009 ordered further probe into the case following petition from the state lawyers.
Abdul Kahar Akand, special police superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), submitted supplementary charge-sheets in the cases on July 3 last year accusing Tarique, Khaleda's former political secretary Harris Chowdhury, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and 27 others of complicity in the attack.
At present, the total number of accused is 52, including the previous 22.
The newly accused include the former state minister for home during the BNP-led 2001-6 cabinet Lutfozzaman Babar, Khaleda's nephew Saiful Islam Duke and BNP MP Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad.
The hearing on the discharge plea began on Sept 11 last year.
Nineteen of the 52 charge-sheeted accused in the Aug 21 grenade attack cases are now staying abroad. The two cases were filed under the explosive and murder acts.
Banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu of BNP were among the formerly accused
Twenty-nine others were also indicted at a special court of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1. Judge Mohammad Shahed Nur Uddin set Mar 28 for deposition.
Charge against BNP chief Khaleda Zia's elder son Tarique has been framed in his absence as he has been staying in UK for over three years.
Earlier, charges against 22 were framed during the tenure of last caretaker administration.
At least 24 people died, including senior Awami League leader Ivy Rahman, wife of President Mohammad Zillur Rahman, in a grenade attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's rally in Dhaka on Aug 21 2004.
Hasina narrowly survived the attacks and over 100 others suffered injuries.
Allegations were there that there had been attempts to divert the course of investigation during the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition government. During the last military-backed caretaker government, CID official Fazlul Kabir submitted two chargesheets on June 11, 2008 accusing 22 people of being involved with the attack.
The court on Aug 3, 2009 ordered further probe into the case following petition from the state lawyers.
Abdul Kahar Akand, special police superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), submitted supplementary charge-sheets in the cases on July 3 last year accusing Tarique, Khaleda's former political secretary Harris Chowdhury, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and 27 others of complicity in the attack.
At present, the total number of accused is 52, including the previous 22.
The newly accused include the former state minister for home during the BNP-led 2001-6 cabinet Lutfozzaman Babar, Khaleda's nephew Saiful Islam Duke and BNP MP Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad.
The hearing on the discharge plea began on Sept 11 last year.
Nineteen of the 52 charge-sheeted accused in the Aug 21 grenade attack cases are now staying abroad. The two cases were filed under the explosive and murder acts.
Banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu of BNP were among the formerly accused
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