Govt’s dillydallying on reopening the BDR massacre probe raises concerns.

The defence and the prosecution are unable to move appeals before the Appellate Division in the sensational BDR carnage case, as the High Court is yet to release the full text of its verdict.

Torab Ali, who was acquitted from the BDR carnage case recently, dies at the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital around 6:00am. He was 80.

The High Court has confirmed death penalty for 139 out of 152 accused who were given capital punishment by a lower court for their involvement in the massacre during the BDR mutiny in 2009.

The High Court yesterday asked Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to form a probe body to investigate why the intelligence unit of then BDR failed to detect the impending 2009 mutiny.

The Satmasjid Road at capital's Dhanmondi was buzzing with usual morning rush hour traffic around 9:00am on February 25, 2009. Shops were already busy handling customers; parents hurrying to schools to drop off their children and make it to their offices in time.

Relatives of a number of army officers killed during the Pilkhana BDR carnage yesterday expressed satisfaction over the High Court judgment.

The High Court observes that there was a plot both from internal and external sides behind the BDR carnage to uproot Sheikh Hasina-led government.

The 2009 BDR mutiny had posed a serious challenge to the 48-day-old government and a grave threat to democracy and the rule of law, a High Court judge observed yesterday while delivering the verdict in the sensational BDR carnage case.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says all the three judges of the special High Court bench, currently pronouncing judgment on death reference and jail appeals in BDR carnage case, are unanimous on sentencing in the verdict.

The High Court (HC) will deliver its verdict on November 26 on the death reference and appeals in BDR carnage case.

The prosecution at the High Court expresses the hope that the verdict on death reference and jail appeals in the BDR carnage case will be pronounced soon.

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that rejected three appeals seeking tougher punishment for all the accused who were acquitted and given imprisonment of various terms by the lower court in the BDR carnage case.

The High Court directs the government to arrange adequate security for three of its judges now hearing the death references and appeals of 2009 Pilkhana carnage case.