Court again defers hearing to frame ex-minister Kibria murder charges

A Sylhet special tribunal has deferred indictment hearing in a case filed over former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria’s killing as several of the accused were not produced before the court during the scheduled hearing.

Sylhet Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 25 August 2015, 12:43 PM
Updated : 25 August 2015, 12:43 PM

This is the eighth time the charge framing hearing has been pushed back.

Sylhet’s Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal on Tuesday did not fix a new date for the next hearing, tribunal’s Special Public Prosecutor Kishor Kumar Kar said.

Kibria was fatally wounded in a grenade attack on Jan 27, 2005 in Habiganj and died on the way to hospital. The attack also left four others dead.

Abdul Majid Khan, incumbent general secretary of Awami League’s Habiganj unit, filed a murder case and another under the Explosives Act over the incident.

Kar said eight of the 32 accused in the murder case are out on bail and 14 are in jail while 10 others are on the run.

The law stipulates producing all the accused before the court during indictment hearing, he added.

But on Tuesday, only five of the accused were produced before the court.

“That’s why the judge deferred the charge framing hearing,” Kar added.

The case’s indictment hearing was pushed back on June 21, July 6, 14 and 23, and Aug 3, 10 and 18.