20 students to die in Abrar Fahad murder case
08 December 2021, 03:43 pm | Updated: 26 November 2024, 05:48 pm
A Dhaka court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to 20 people and life term imprisonment to five others for the 2019 murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad, who was beaten to death by Chhatra League activists.
Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 Judge Abu Zafar M Kamruzzaman handed down the verdict.
On October 6, 2019, BUET Sher-e-Bangla Hall resident Abrar criticised the government over a water-sharing deal with India on Facebook. He was subsequently taken to the room of a BCL leader on the night and murdered.
The incident sparked fury among the university’s students and led to the authorities imposing a ban on student politics.
All of the 25 suspects eventually named in the case were BUET students and Chhatra League activists. Three of them were tried in absentia.
On September 15, 2020, the trial in the case began. After the arguments from both sides, it ended on Nov 14 this year.
The judge set November 28 for the verdict. The verdict was, however, deferred to December 8 as the court said it needed ‘a bit more time’ to finish writing it.
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