Biswajit’s family not happy with verdict
Published: 00:22, Aug 07,2017 | Updated: 00:28, Aug 07,2017
The parents of Biswajit Das on Sunday expressed their dissatisfaction about High Court death reference and appeals’ verdict as the HC did not uphold the trial court verdict that sentenced eight to death and 13 others to life term imprisonment on December 18, 2013, two weeks before the national election on January 5, 2014.
‘We are not satisfied with the High Court verdict as it did not reflect our expectation that the High Court would uphold the lower court verdict. We demand to the government to take steps so that the lower court verdict is upheld and executed,’ Bishwajit’s father Ananta Das said at his residence at village Bhojeshwar under Naria in Shariatpur.
The High Court on Sunday upheld death sentence for two of the convicts, commuted death sentence of four others to life term imprisonment and acquitted two, who got death sentence in the trial court.
Note: this is Awami League kangaroo justice system spare Awami terrorists.
The HC also acquitted two others, who were sentenced to life term imprisonment.
On Saturday afternoon, it was seen that Bishwajit’s ancestral home was crowded with their neighbours and relatives to hear the verdict on television at the house. Bishwajit’s parents were wailing recalling his memories.
After knowing the verdict of HC in the afternoon, Bishwajit’s mother Kalpana Rani Das cried out and said, ‘All saw who had killed my son in broad daylight on Dhaka road. The lower court had sentenced eight to death and 13 to life term.’
‘How can I be happy while my son is no more. I will get some peace if the earlier (lower court) verdict would execute before my death,’ she had been wailing. Bishwajit Das, a tailor at Shankhari Bazar in the Old Town of Dhaka, was hacked to death by ruling Awami League’s student organisation Bangladesh Chattra League’s activists of Jagannath University on December 9, 2012 morning when a countrywide blockade sponsored by an opposition party was in progress.
As Bishwajit had been walking to his shop, a group of lawyers were marching towards Bahadur Shah Park in support of the blockade. A group of BCL activists of JnU attacked the procession and beat up some lawyers, witnesses said at the time.
In a few minutes, an explosion was heard nearby and the BCL men started chasing pedestrians and Bishwajit, who was there at the time, ran for safer place and hurried to the second floor of a nearby building. The BCL men hunted him down as he tried to take shelter in a dental clinic.
For about five minutes, they beat and hacked him indiscriminately, dragging him down to the streets.
Bishwajit was hacked multiple times in the very presence of some on-duty policemen, who, as video footages showed, played the role of silent onlookers.
Bishwajit only could manage to escape, cross the road running a few feet and collapsed on the ground.
A few locals then put him on a rickshaw that took him to Mitford Hospital in about 10 minutes. He died at the hospital within minutes.
The killing, much of which was filmed by reporters at the scene, shook the nation.
Different media published photos of leaders and activists of JnU unit of BCL who had been beating and hacking Bishwajit.
The court, in its order, said that the countrymen live in a society where the money and power enjoyed a sort of impunity and influenced the outcome of investigation into offences.
The court observed that in many cases police and investigating agencies, doctors and experts in the aid of offender were submitting false and motivated reports and they were doing it under political influence to gain personally and other purposes.
http://www.newagebd.net/article/21408/biswajits-family-not-happy-with-verdict
Published: 00:22, Aug 07,2017 | Updated: 00:28, Aug 07,2017
The parents of Biswajit Das on Sunday expressed their dissatisfaction about High Court death reference and appeals’ verdict as the HC did not uphold the trial court verdict that sentenced eight to death and 13 others to life term imprisonment on December 18, 2013, two weeks before the national election on January 5, 2014.
‘We are not satisfied with the High Court verdict as it did not reflect our expectation that the High Court would uphold the lower court verdict. We demand to the government to take steps so that the lower court verdict is upheld and executed,’ Bishwajit’s father Ananta Das said at his residence at village Bhojeshwar under Naria in Shariatpur.
The High Court on Sunday upheld death sentence for two of the convicts, commuted death sentence of four others to life term imprisonment and acquitted two, who got death sentence in the trial court.
Note: this is Awami League kangaroo justice system spare Awami terrorists.
The HC also acquitted two others, who were sentenced to life term imprisonment.
On Saturday afternoon, it was seen that Bishwajit’s ancestral home was crowded with their neighbours and relatives to hear the verdict on television at the house. Bishwajit’s parents were wailing recalling his memories.
After knowing the verdict of HC in the afternoon, Bishwajit’s mother Kalpana Rani Das cried out and said, ‘All saw who had killed my son in broad daylight on Dhaka road. The lower court had sentenced eight to death and 13 to life term.’
‘How can I be happy while my son is no more. I will get some peace if the earlier (lower court) verdict would execute before my death,’ she had been wailing. Bishwajit Das, a tailor at Shankhari Bazar in the Old Town of Dhaka, was hacked to death by ruling Awami League’s student organisation Bangladesh Chattra League’s activists of Jagannath University on December 9, 2012 morning when a countrywide blockade sponsored by an opposition party was in progress.
As Bishwajit had been walking to his shop, a group of lawyers were marching towards Bahadur Shah Park in support of the blockade. A group of BCL activists of JnU attacked the procession and beat up some lawyers, witnesses said at the time.
In a few minutes, an explosion was heard nearby and the BCL men started chasing pedestrians and Bishwajit, who was there at the time, ran for safer place and hurried to the second floor of a nearby building. The BCL men hunted him down as he tried to take shelter in a dental clinic.
For about five minutes, they beat and hacked him indiscriminately, dragging him down to the streets.
Bishwajit was hacked multiple times in the very presence of some on-duty policemen, who, as video footages showed, played the role of silent onlookers.
Bishwajit only could manage to escape, cross the road running a few feet and collapsed on the ground.
A few locals then put him on a rickshaw that took him to Mitford Hospital in about 10 minutes. He died at the hospital within minutes.
The killing, much of which was filmed by reporters at the scene, shook the nation.
Different media published photos of leaders and activists of JnU unit of BCL who had been beating and hacking Bishwajit.
The court, in its order, said that the countrymen live in a society where the money and power enjoyed a sort of impunity and influenced the outcome of investigation into offences.
The court observed that in many cases police and investigating agencies, doctors and experts in the aid of offender were submitting false and motivated reports and they were doing it under political influence to gain personally and other purposes.
http://www.newagebd.net/article/21408/biswajits-family-not-happy-with-verdict
