Verdict in Khadiza murder-attempt case today
UNB
A Sylhet court is set to deliver its judgment today in a case filed over the attempt on the life of college student Khadiza Begum Nargis, reports UNB. On March 5, Metropolitan Sessions Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha fixed March 8 for delivering its verdict in the case. Of the total 37 witnesses, 34 made their depositions before the court in the case. Khadiza, 23, a student of Sylhet Womens College and daughter of Masuk Miah of Hausa village in Sadar upazila, was stabbed by former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Badrul Alam on October 3 last year on her way back home from MC College following the refusal of his proposal for having an affair with him.
Badrul confessed to hacking Khadiza in his statement made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc) on October 5 last year.
Police submitted chargesheet against the lone accused, Badrul, on November 8. The court indicted Badrul Alam in the case on November 29.
After more than three months of treatment and intensive care, Khadiza returned home from the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar on February 24.
On February 26, Khadiza appeared before the court for the first time and made her deposition. On March 1, the case was transferred to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court from the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court as the court lacks the authority to give the highest punishment.
