The Appellate Division on Thursday upheld the High Court's order to acquit businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun, a close associate of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, in a case filed for accumulating illegal wealth. The Appellate Division's full bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed passed the order. Sabbir Hamza Chowdhury, the lawyer for Giasuddin Al Mamun, said the High Court had acquitted Giasuddin Al Mamun of the charges. On May 8, 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case at the Cantonment police station after Giasuddin Al Mamun failed to submit his wealth statement. The ACC charged him with amassing illegal wealth worth over Tk 101.73 crore. On March 27, 2008, the lower court sentenced Mamun to 10 years imprisonment  with a fine of Tk 10 lakh. When he appealed against that verdict in the High Court, a bench of Justices AKM Asaduzzaman and Abu Taher Md. Saifur Rahman acquitted Mamun on July 30, 2012. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) later filed a Leave to Appeal against the High Court verdict. On November 1, 2015, the Appellate Division scrapped the High Court's acquittal verdict and ordered a re-hearing of the appeal in the case. Gias Uddin Al Mamun acquitted in money laundering case Gias Uddin filed an application for a review of the Appellate Division's order. When the Appellate Division granted his review, he appealed and the appeal was granted today.  

The High Court (HC) has overturned the verdict of a lower court in two cases filed over the August 21 grenade attack, acquitting all convicts, including BNP's Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar. An HC bench comprising Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the judgement on Sunday. The court also declared the charge sheet in the case illegal. Earlier, the court concluded hearings on the death reference and appeals of the accused on November 21, keeping the cases awaiting judgment (CAV). Subsequently, the two cases were listed for verdict today (Sunday). The grenade attack, a shocking incident, occurred on Dhaka's Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. On October 10, 2018, a Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal issued a verdict in one of the cases (pertaining to murder and explosives). The tribunal sentenced 19 accused, including former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and former deputy education minister Abdus Salam Pintu, to death. Read: Silence marks 20th anniversary of Aug 21 grenade attack Besides, 19 others, including BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, were handed life imprisonment sentences, while 11 accused received various terms of imprisonment and fines. The judgment was subsequently transferred to the HC in 2018, registered as a death reference case.  

The High Court on Sunday ordered a judicial inquiry into the matter of Abul Kashem who has been languishing in the condemned cell for seven years despite his acquittal in a murder case in Chattogram's Lohagara upazila. The HC bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Md Bashir Ullah passed the order. The registrar of the High Court was asked to investigate the matter and submit a report by August 25. Lawyer Mohammad Shishir Monir appeared for the appeal in the court while Deputy Attorney General Sarwar Hossain Bappi for the state. Kashem was made an accused in the case over the killing of Jane Alam on March 30, 2002 in the upazila. Read: HC orders providing Tk 5 lakh to legal guardian of the baby born on road in Mymensingh On August 4, following a report published on a news portal over the matter, Shishir Monir requested an investigation into the case of Abul Kashem who was acquitted by the High Court seven years ago in the murder case. On July 24 in 2007, the Chattogram court sentenced 12 accused, including Abul Kashem, to death and eight to life imprisonment. Kashem was tried in absentia. On April 14 in 2015, Additional Chattogram District and Sessions Judge Court-1 sent Abul Kashem to jail when he appeared before the court in another case and had been in the prison's condemned cell since then.   On February 2013, the HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Shahidul Karim acquitted Abul Kashem from the case. The order of his acquittal reached the Chattogram court from the High Court in due course but not to the jail authorities even after 7 years.

SM Mahmud Setu, a death-row convict in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case, filed a petition with the High Court seeking acquittal on Wednesday. Advocate Jamiul Haque Foysal and Barrister Sharmin Akter Sheuli filed the petition with the HC bench concerned on behalf of Setu. On December 8 last year, a Dhaka court sentenced 20 young men to death and five others to life imprisonment for killing Abrar, 21-year-old student of Buet, in October 2019. Read: Abrar murder case: Death reference reaches High Court The death references of Abrar Fahad murder case reached the High Court for examining the lower court verdict on January 6. According to the prosecution, Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Buet, was beaten to death by Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders at Sher-e-Bangla Hall in 2019. He was found dead on the staircase of the hall in the early hours of October 7, after he was taken to room No-2011 around 8pm on October 6 and beaten mercilessly. Those sentenced to death are Mehedi Hassan Rasel, Muntasir Al Jemi, Tabakhkharul Islam Tanvir, Mohammad Sadat, Mizanur Rahman, Samsul Arefin Rafat, Md Shamem Billah, Mazedur Rahman, Hossain Mohammad Toha, Moniruzzaman Monir, Mehedi Hasan Robin, Muzahidur Rahman Muzahid, Anik Sarker, Meftahul Islam Zion, Ifti Mosharraf Shakal, Mahmud Setu, Morshed Amartya Islam, Morshedzamman alias Jisan, Ahtesamul Rabbi Tanim and Muztaba Rafid. Read: 20 to die for killing Buet student Abrar On October 7, 2019, an FIR for murder was lodged at the Chawkbazar police station against 19 people, following a complaint from Abrar’s father Barkat Ullah. On November 13, 2019, Detective Branch (DB) inspector and investigation officer of the case Wahiduzzaman submitted a chargesheet against the 25 accused. On September 15, 2020, the court framed charges against the accused.

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