DHAKA, Feb 18, 2025 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today concluded its hearing on death references and jail appeals of the convicts in the 2001 Ramna Batamul bomb attack case and may deliver the judgment any day.
 
 A High Court Division Bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Nasreen Akter kept the date of the judgment on CAV, curia advisory vault (a Latin phrase used to indicate that the court's judgment was not given immediately after the hearing).
 
 “Hearing concluded, judgment on CAV,” said the short order passed by the High Court.
 
Senior lawyers SM Shahjahan and Sarwar Ahmed and advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir took part in the hearing for the defence, while Deputy Attorney General Sultana Akter Rubi argued for the state.
 
A total of 10 people were killed in a bomb attack on Chhayanat's Bangla New Year celebrations at Ramna Batamul on April 14, 2001. Police filed two cases, one for murder and another under the Explosives Substances Act with the Ramna Police Station on the same day.
 
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed the charge sheet against 14 people in the two cases on November 30, 2008.
 
 
Dhaka 2nd Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge on June 23, 2014, convicted and sentenced eight people including Harkatul Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Hannan to death and six others to life imprisonment in the murder case.
 
The death references of the death row convicts and jail appeals later came to the High Court for hearing. The High Court today concluded its hearing on the matters.
 
The Explosives Substance Act case, however, is still under trial at Dhaka 1st Speedy Trial Tribunal.