A Dhaka court on Wednesday recorded the testimony of another witness in a case filed with Mohammadpur police station over the attack on the convoy of former US ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nazmin Akter recorded the deposition of Detective Branch Inspector Md Moniruzzaman and fixed 11 January next year for the examination of the next witness, defence lawyer Gazi Faisal Islam said.
Earlier, on 19 July, the court recorded the depositions of Mohammadpur police station Assistant Sub-Inspector Grish Chandra Barman and Azmal Hossain. So far, 10 of the 28 witnesses have testified in the case.
The accused are Naimul Hasan, former president of the Mohammadpur thana unit of the banned Chhatra League, Mohammad Ishtiaq Mahmud, Firoz Mahmud, Mir Amjad Hossain, Saju Islam, Rajibul Islam, Shahidul Alam Khan, Siam and Oli Ahmed.
On 10 August 2018, Badiul Alam Majumdar filed the case over the attack. Police submitted the charge sheet on 18 January 2021, and the trial began with witness testimony on 28 March 2022.
On 27 December 2022, the court withdrew the case from the witness examination stage and sent it back to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka for further investigation.
Following further investigation, DB police submitted a supplementary charge sheet against nine people on 19 September 2023.
On 19 November 2023, then Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nurul Huda Chowdhury ordered the trial to proceed after framing charges against the accused.
