All criminals, students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), belong to the now-disbanded Bangladesh chhatra League (BCL), which is the student wing of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
They lynched Buet Electrical and Electronics second-year student Abrar Fahad on his Facebook post criticizing the government on October 7, 2019.
The next morning, Fahard’s body was found in his university dormitory. Later investigations found that he was defeated by 25 classmates’ cricket bats and other blunt objects for nearly six hours.
Both Buet and BCL immediately expelled the students after Fahad was murdered.
The Dhaka court was sentenced to 20 death sentences on December 8, 2021, when the Awami Alliance was in power. In addition to maintaining the death penalty for 20 students, “the court maintained life sentences for five other offenders, who were also couple students,” said Attorney General M Asaduzzaman. After the High Court’s judgment, Fahard’s father told reporters: “We are satisfied with the High Court’s ruling. However, the ruling must be enforced quickly.”
“We did not expect such a swift judgment from the High Court. We are satisfied with this ruling, although there are still many legal proceedings,” said his brother Faiyaz.
Defense attorney Azizur Rahman Dulu said the judgment disappointed him, adding: “We will appeal to the appellant and hope to get justice there.”
The offender personally tried the offender, but one of the death row inmates in the case, Muntasir Al Jamie, fled the high-security prison in the suburb Cashimire Central Prison last year.
He took advantage of the chaos in a massive student-led protest on August 6, 2024, the day after the fall of the Hasina regime, and took advantage of the chaos, he fled the facility with 86 other dead prisoners, including some militants.
