Abrar Fahad murder: Death row convict Morshed files appeal with Appellate Division
A death row convict in the murder case of Abrar Fahad, a Buet student beaten to death in 2019, has filed an appeal with the Appellate Division.
Morshed Omorto Islam, who was sentenced to death in the murder case, filed the appeal, his lawyer Azizur Rahman Dulu told reporters today (19 May).
Abrar, a second-year student, was beaten to death by a group of now-banned Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at the Sher-e-Bangla Hall of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) on 7 October 2019.
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Earlier on 16 March, the High Court upheld the verdict of the trial court, which had sentenced 20 individuals to death and five others to life imprisonment.
Contacted that day, Md Ruhul Quddus (Kajal), a senior advocate of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, told The Business Standard that the process of the case was not going to end any time soon.
"If the accused or the state files an appeal in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, it will take time to be resolved. Then there will be a review. Finally, the convicted [if the sentence is upheld in the final trial] may seek mercy from the president," he said.
Only after this the issue of implementing the verdict will come about.
