Rajon Murder Case
Rerecording of testimonies of 11 witnesses today
Correspondent, Sylhet
A Sylhet court yesterday decided to rerecord depositions of 11 witnesses in Samiul Alam Rajon murder case today following a petition submitted by the defense.
Judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court Akbor Hossain Mridha fixed the date for recording afresh the testimonies of the 11 witness, out of the 35 who gave their depositions earlier.
Earlier on October 18, the court rejected the plea submitted by the defense to rerecord the testimonies of the 35 witnesses.
As yesterdays court proceedings started for opinions, defense counsel Ali Hayder appealed to the court to rerecord the testimonies of 15 witnesses but the court granted rerecording testimonies of 11, which will he held today. The lawyer for key accused Kamrul Islam pleaded for rerecording testimonies of the 35 witnesses because he and his client were not present during testimonies of the witnesses were recorded from October 1 to 18. Earlier the court also fixed October 25 for closing arguments.
On September 7, Rajon murder case had been transferred to the Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court from Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrates Court. Earlier police pressed charges against 13 people, including prime accused Kamrul Islam, for their involvement in the killing. Later court accepted the charge sheet on August 24.
After the charge sheet was accepted, police confiscated wealth of two accused, including Kamrul and Shamim, following a court order. On august 3, the court also ordered to publish an advertisement in newspapers asking to know whereabouts of the three absconding accused. In the charge sheet, police showed three accused, including Kamrul and 10 others, arrested.
Kamrul had fled to Saudi Arabia after the incident. He was later caught by some Bangladeshi expatriates there and handed over to Saudi police. Investigation officer Suranjit Talukder submitted the charge sheet to the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Shahedul Karim on August16. Apart from Kamrul, the other accused include Muhit Alam, Ali Haider, Nurul Amin, Dulal Ahmed, Nur Mia, Ayaz Ali, Badal, Firoz Ali, Shamim, Ruhul Amin, Pavel and Asmat Ali. Names of two detainees-- Lipi Begum and Ismail Hossain-- were dropped from the charge sheet as their involvement in the incident was not found.
