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Chittagong mayor candidate Nasir gets bail in attempted murder case filed 22 years ago
Awami League-backed mayor aspirant of Chittagong City Corporation AJM Nasir Uddin has secured bail in an attempt to murder case filed 22 years ago.
Published : 1 April 2015, 06:18 PM
Updated : 1 April 2015, 06:22 PM
District and Sessions Judge Nurul Huda bailed him when he surrendered to the court on Wednesday.
The Election Commission declared Nasir’s nomination valid after scrutiny later in the same day.
The state’s lawyer District Public Prosecutor Abul Hashem did not contest his bail plea saying he ‘honoured Nasir’s respect for the law’.
“Also, the state goes soft in such cases when statements of witnesses do not go against the accused,” he said.
“Considering everything, the court gave him bail,” he added.
The court hold hold further hearing on Apr 6 .
The case was filed in 1993 over an attack on Jan 24 on then Chhatra League leader Sufian Siddiqui during a rally of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, then the opposition leader.
Nasir was a Chhatra League leader then.
Sufian filed the case against Nasir and 17 others on charges of attempt to murder.
Police submitted chargesheet on Mar 7 that year. The defence petitioned to question the witnesses further after recording statements of eight.
After the petition was rejected, one of the accused filed a revision petition at the High Court in 1994 seeking a stay on the case. Since then, there had been no hearing on the case.
In March last year, the High Court ordered a revision case after the stay order had been lifted.
It ordered questioning the eight witnesses again and finishing the case within six months.
The order reached the Chittagong court in March this year.
Nasir was also accused in cases over triple murder at Chittagong Medical College on Oct 18, 1993, double murder at Islamia College in 1994 and a murder attempt on a Chhatra League leader at Chittagong Polytechnic Institute in 1999.
Nasir stated in the affidavit to the returning officer that he was absolved of the charges in the two murder cases and was acquitted in attempt to murder case in 1999.
The case over the attack on Sufian Siddiqui was ongoing, Nasir said.
He is running any polls for the first time.
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