Hearing on charge framing against BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and 29 others in connection with the August 21 grenade attack cases will begin on September 11.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court yesterday fixed the date after taking the charges against the 30 accused into cognisance.
The court rejected the bail petition of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid after his lawyer moved the prayer saying his name was included in the charge sheets to harass him.
Earlier on July 3, Criminal Investigation Department submitted the supplementary charge sheets showing 12 of them as fugitives.
Eighteen of the accused including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Mojahid were produced before the court.
Besides, former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and 12 others of the 22 accused in the previous charge sheet were also produced.
Twenty-four people including Awami League leader Ivy Rahman were killed and around 200 others injured in the grisly grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21 in 2004.
The then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.
Source : The Daily Star
