A Sylhet court today fixed March 1 for the arguments in the case filed over the hacking of college student Khadiza Begum Nargis.
Judge Saifuzzaman Hiru of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court fixed
the date after completing hearing on charge framing, reports a
correspondent from Sylhet.
On October 3 last year, Khadiza Begum Nargis, a student of Sylhet
Government Women's College, was brutally hacked by Badrul Alam, a
student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and senior
assistant secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League unit at the
institute.
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A total of 32 witnesses out of 33 gave deposition before a Sylhet
court, said Mahfuzur Rahman, additional public prosecutor of Sylhet
court.
Around 10:38am, the court started it proceeding with the presence of the victim Khadiza and the accused Badrul, said the PP.
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Badrul Alam confessed before the court saying that he was not in the
normal state during the incident, said his lawyer Sazzadur Rahman
Choudhury.
On November 15, 2016, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of the
district Umme Sharaban Tahura accepted the charge sheet that police
pressed accusing Badrul on November 8.
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On October 5, 2016, Badrul Alam confessed to hacking Khadiza in his
statement he made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
(CrPC).
On the incident day, after Khadia was hacked severely by Badrul, she
was first taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital from where she
was moved to Dhaka.
After being treated at hospitals in Dhaka and Savar for more than
four months, Khadiza Begum Nargis returned home on February 24.
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