The court of chief metropolitan magistrate yesterday transferred the supplementary charge sheet of the murder case in the August 21 grenade attack to the Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka for starting its trial.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) AKM Enamul Haque asked the police to send all the documents relating to the case to the trial court.
General Registering Officer (GRO) Gaffar Alam told The Daily Star yesterday that there was no legal bar to start trial against BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and 29 other supplementary charge-sheeted accused as all the formalities were earlier completed.
Earlier, the CMM court received the copy of an advertisement asking Tarique and 11 other fugitive charge-sheeted accused to appear before the court in seven days.
The advertisement was published in the daily Amader Shomoy and the daily Shamokal on August 2.
The CMM court has transferred the case after finishing all its proceedings, it said, adding that the Sessions Judge's Court can deal with the case as it is now triable.
The same court also issued arrest warrants against Tarique, Harris Chowdhury, BNP lawmaker Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and nine others after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted supplementary charge sheets on July 3 showing them fugitives.
Twenty-four people were killed in the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
Another case filed under the Explosive Substances Act is now pending with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka.
This court on July 14 and 26 had issued warrants against Tarique and 11 others as they had gone into hiding to avoid arrest.
Source : The Daily Star
