DHAKA, April 30, 2025 (BSS) - The High Court (HC) today set May 8 for pronouncing its verdict on the death references of the convicts and appeals filed in the case lodged over the 2001 Ramna Batamul bomb attack.
 
A High Court division bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam passed the order this morning. The High Court kept the date of the judgment on CAV, Curia Advisari Vult (a Latin legal term meaning court awaits verdict), on February 18.
  
Senior Advocates SM Shahjahan and Sarwar Ahmed, Advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir argued for the defence, while Deputy Attorney General Sultana Akter Rubi stood 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 separate 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 Explosives Substance Act case, however, is still under trial at the Dhaka 1st Speedy Trial Tribunal.