High Court orders 8 acquitted in decades-old Kishoreganj murder to surrender

Court moves after revision petition hearing, seeking am explanation over trial court’s acquittal order

The High Court has ordered eight people acquitted in a two-decade-old Kishoreganj murder case to surrender before the authorities.

It also issued a rule asking why the trial court’s verdict acquitting the accused should not be scrapped.

The bench of Justice Md Atowar Rahman and Justice Bishwajit Debnath passed the order Tuesday following a preliminary hearing of a revision petition filed by Hawa Akter, sister of the victim identified only as Zaman.

Lawyer Md Mustofa Jamal Bhuiyan represented the petitioner in court.

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