Verdict in SI Farhad murder case today

Judge Mohammad Rabiul Hassan of the Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka will deliver the verdict at 11:30am, court sources said.

SI Hasanul Haq Farhad, 30, was killed during a gunbattle between the two factions of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at Jagannath University College on March 5 in 1994.

Both the groups, one led by Sagir Ahmed and the other by Kajol, engaged themselves in the clash to establish supremacy on the college campus. During the shootout, Farhad caught one of the leaders red handed with a firearm but others fired gunshots to free their leader.

Later, the then officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station Inspector Majibul Haq filed two casesone for murder and the other for bomb explosion-- against Sagir, Kajol and 50 others the same day in this connection.

Sagir was shot dead by a group of miscreants in front of his residence in the city's Sutrapur area on June 17 this year.

Kajol, accused in the Sutrapur double murder case, has been absconding since the incident in March last year.

The accused included Kajol and 38 others, the then JCD leaders and activists of Jagannath University College unit.

Meanwhile, the same court on September 8 acquitted Kajol and 22 others in the bomb blast case as the prosecution failed to prove the allegations brought against them filed under the Explosive Substances Act.