A Dhaka court on Wednesday shifted the date to March 5 for taking its decision whether it will frame charges against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and 51 others accused in the August 21 grenade attack cases.
Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 re-fixed the date as he could not scrutinise the discharge petitions submitted by the 33 accused, who are now in jail and on bail.
On October 9 last year the accused filed the petitions.
The court was scheduled to take decision on the charge framing on Wednesday.
All the 32 detained accused including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mojaheed were produced before the court prior to the court resumed its day's proceedings.
Former Dhaka City Corporation ward councillor Ariful Islam Arif, now on bail, was also present during the day's hearing.
Of the accused, Tarique and 18 other are absconding.
Twenty-four people including Awami League leader Ivy Rahman were killed and around 200 others injured in the grisly grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. The then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.
AUGUST 21 GRENADE ATTACK CASE
After the grisly grenade attack in 2004, two cases were filed in connection with the attack – one under explosive substances act and the other for killing people.
In 2008, the CID submitted charge sheets against 22 people including former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and 21 Huji men including militant kingpin Mufti Hannan.
On July 3 last year, 30 more people including Tarique, Lutfozzaman Babar, Harris Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were made accused in a supplementary charge-sheet.
Both the prosecution and the defence set 25 different dates to carry out the hearing on charge framing against the accused of the cases.
On October 9, 2011, Syed Rezaur Rahman, chief counsel for the two grenade attack cases, proposed the court to frame charges against all 52 accused, alleging that they had meetings at several places, including the Hawa Bhaban, to plot the grisly blasts in 2004.
Following the prosecution proposal, defence counsels submitted discharge petitions to free their clients from all charges of the cases.
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