Court sets May 8 for report submission in militants’ escape case
Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court has fixed May 8 to submit the probe report in a case filed over the snatching of two death row convicts from a court's police custody in 2022.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim fixed the new date allowing a time plea of the prosecution as the investigation officer failed to submit the report on Thursday to be set by the court.
Death-row convicts Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, members of the outlawed militant outfit Ansar-al Islam, were whisked away by their associates beating police and spraying chemical on their eyes in Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court arena on November 20, 2022.
Court inspector Md Julhash later filed the case with Kotwali Police Station. In the case, seven to eight others were named as unknown suspects.
Sohel and Shamim were convicted in the murder of publisher Foisal Arefin Dipon.
