The High Court is scheduled for today to deliver verdict in the appeal filed by three convicted police personnel against a lower court judgement that jailed them for life for the custodial death of car driver Ishtiaq Hossain Jony in 2014.
A division bench of the HC comprising Justice S M Kuddus Zaman and Justice AKM Rabiul Hassan fixed the date for delivering the verdict after hearing the appeals of the accused.
Earlier on September 9, 2020, Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge KM Emrul Kayesh sentenced the three, including a sub-inspector, to life-term imprisonment for the custodial death of Jony under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act 2013.
The punishments of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender.
The convicts are then Pallabi police station sub-inspector Jahidur Rahman and former assistant sub-inspectors Qamruzzaman Mintu and Rashedul Hasan.
Of them, Jahid and Rashed are now in jail while Mintu is still in hiding.
Earlier, the court recorded testimonies of 23 prosecution witnesses, including the complainant of the case.
According to the case statement, a group of 25鈥�26 police personnel, including Jahid, raided a house during a wedding ceremony in Pallabi鈥檚 Irani camp area and arrested Jonny on February 8, 2014.
Informer Sumon and two of his friends including Russell called police after Jonny slapped him for harassing women at a programme.
Police allegedly tortured Jonny at the police station.
After Jonny fell sick the next day, he was admitted to a local clinic. Later, he was transferred to Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
On August 8, 2014, the victim鈥檚 younger brother Imtiaz Hossain Rocky filed the case with the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge鈥檚 Court.
On February 17, 2015, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate SM Ashikur Rahman conducted a judicial inquiry, found involvement of Jahid and the other four with the death and submitted a judicial inquiry report to the court.
The court framed charges against the five on April 17, 2016.
