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A tribunal has sentenced five students of Jahangirnagar University to death and six others to life term in prison for murdering English department’s Zubair Ahmed.
Published : 08 Feb 2015, 12:36 PM
Dhaka’s Fourth Speedy Trial Tribunal judge ABM Nizamul Haq delivered the verdict on Sunday, three years after the brutal killing.
Two of the accused were acquitted.
The murdered and the accused were members of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student affiliate of ruling Awami League.
Those who have got the capital punishment are Ashiqul Islam Ashique, Jahid Hasan, Rashedul Islam Raju and Khan Mohammad Rois of Zoology department and Mahbub Akram of Government and Politics.
All of them have been absconding during the trial.
Those who have been sentenced to life in prison are Ishtiak Mehboob Arup and Kamruzzaman Sohag of Philosophy, Mazharul Islam of History, Shafiul Alam Setu and Avinandan Kundu of Statistics and Nazmus Shakib Tapu of Microbiology.
Nazmul Hasan Plabon of Public Administration and Mahmudul Hasan of History have been acquitted.
Ashique, Rois, Akram and Arup fled from the dock during the trial.
Akram and Tapu confessed to the murder.
Sohag, Mazharul, Setu, Avinandan, Tapu, Plabon and Mahmudul were produced before the tribunal in the morning.
The verdict, to be issued on Feb 4, was rescheduled to Sunday, as the accused were not produced before the tribunal.
Zubair, a final year student, was hacked to death on Jan 8 2012.
The erstwhile registrar of the University Hamidur Rahman filed a case over the murder with Ashulia police.
On Apr 8 the same year, investigation officer Mir Shahin Shah Parvez submitted a charge sheet against 13 students of the 37th batch.
The case was transferred to the tribunal on Aug 13 2012 after it had reached indictment stage.
Teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University had started a movement after the murder.
After the death of Zubair, a student-teacher movement led to the resignation of then Vice-Chancellor Professor Sharif Enamul Kabir.
