HC verdict on seven murders

The High Court judgment is a big boost to the people’s confidence in the justice system

With the upholding of death sentences of 15 main accused and prison terms for others by the High Court is one major step towards punishing the killers of the Narayangan’s sensational seven murder case. It was initially thought, just after the ghastly murder took place, that since some of the accused belonged to the country’s elite law enforcing agency RAB, and that one of them is a ruling AL leader, and that one of them is son-in-law of a government minister; family members and relatives of the victims might not get justice.

But thanks to the due coverage of media on the matter as a whole and public perception that it built, the matter got due administrative as well as judicial attention and the Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge’s Court in Narayanganj had handed down the death penalty to 26 in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case in 2016. The HC upheld the death penalty for 15 and commuted the capital punishment of 11 to life imprisonment. The judgment that still can be challenged in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is a fresh example that if the letter and spirit of law is followed as they ought to be, people can get justice.

The High Court judgment is thus a big boost in their confidence that whoever might the criminal be; he is ultimately a criminal before the law and can be punished according to the law. Following the declaration of the verdict by HC, relatives of victims and the Attorney General of the State himself expressed their satisfaction.

As the identities of the murder unfolded, people could not believe that members of RAB could act as personal hit men. We often hear the commonplace allegation that members of police are involved in crime, but crimes of this sort were hardly ever seen before. The criminals here are not members of general police, but its special branch and among the convicts are the then Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) commanding officer in Narayanganj, former army officer Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, and other military officers including Arif Hossain and Masud Rana.

Once the Narayanganj case comes to its logical close with punishment to the killers, it would act as deterrence against any such crime in future. That is why conviction of these persons was very important. The whole nation was virtually shaken by this grueling murder three years ago in which the murderers not only killed and tried to destroy evidence of murder, but by so doing, they, even more significantly, breached the trust of people as professional law enforcers.  

 

 

HC verdict on seven murders

The High Court judgment is a big boost to the peoples confidence in the justice system

With the upholding of death sentences of 15 main accused and prison terms for others by the High Court is one major step towards punishing the killers of the Narayangans sensational seven murder case. It was initially thought, just after the ghastly murder took place, that since some of the accused belonged to the countrys elite law enforcing agency RAB, and that one of them is a ruling AL leader, and that one of them is son-in-law of a government minister; family members and relatives of the victims might not get justice. But thanks to the due coverage of media on the matter as a whole and public perception that it built, the matter got due administrative as well as judicial attention and the Narayanganj District and Sessions Judges Court in Narayanganj had handed down the death penalty to 26 in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case in 2016. The HC upheld the death penalty for 15 and commuted the capital punishment of 11 to life imprisonment. The judgment that still can be challenged in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is a fresh example that if the letter and spirit of law is followed as they ought to be, people can get justice. The High Court judgment is thus a big boost in their confidence that whoever might the criminal be; he is ultimately a criminal before the law and can be punished according to the law. Following the declaration of the verdict by HC, relatives of victims and the Attorney General of the State himself expressed their satisfaction. As the identities of the murder unfolded, people could not believe that members of RAB could act as personal hit men. We often hear the commonplace allegation that members of police are involved in crime, but crimes of this sort were hardly ever seen before. The criminals here are not members of general police, but its special branch and among the convicts are the then Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) commanding officer in Narayanganj, former army officer Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, and other military officers including Arif Hossain and Masud Rana. Once the Narayanganj case comes to its logical close with punishment to the killers, it would act as deterrence against any such crime in future. That is why conviction of these persons was very important. The whole nation was virtually shaken by this grueling murder three years ago in which the murderers not only killed and tried to destroy evidence of murder, but by so doing, they, even more significantly, breached the trust of people as professional law enforcers.