Lawyers holding demo at CMM court for keeping their fellow on dock for 2 hours
Photo: Chaitanya Chandra Halder
Star Online Report
Star Online Report
A section of lawyers of Dhaka Bar Association is holding a demonstration in front of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate s Court demanding immediate withdrawal of the additional chief metropolitan magistrate for keeping a lawyer on the dock for two hours yesterday.
Around 500 lawyers started the protest rally at the main gate of the court around 9:30am.
All the judicial activities at the CMM court and Chief Judicial Magistrate Court came to a halt following the protest.
The gate of the court was shut and no one is allowed to enter the court building.
After 28 Years, CBI Court convicts Priest & Nun in Sister Abhaya Case
By SM Bilal| Updated: 23rd December 2020 12:49 pm IST
Thiruvananthapuram: In the 28 year old Sister Abhaya murder case, a court in Kerala pronounced a guilty verdict on Monday.
A Special CBI Court in Thiruvananthapuram found Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Sephy, a priest and nun of the Catholic Church respectively, guilty of murder in the case.
The details of the reasoning and the findings of the court will be known after the full copy of the judgment is released.
Special CBI Judge K Sanal Kumar, who handed down the guilty verdict, will pronounce the sentence for the convicts tomorrow. Kottoor has been found guilty for offences under Sections 302(murder), 201(destruction of evidence) and 449(criminal trespass) of the Indian Penal Code .Sephy was held guilty for offences under Sections 302 and 201 IPC.
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My mission was justice for Abhaya: Activist who tracked case from start
The rights activist says it had become a mission for him to see to it that justice was delivered. December 23, 2020 1:32:01 am
The accused produced before the Kochi Chief Judicial Magistrate Court. (Express file photo)
FOR JOMON Puthenpurackal, it has been a long wait. One of the few who tracked and highlighted the Abhaya murder case right from the beginning, the rights activist says it had become a mission for him to see to it that justice was delivered. It took 28 years but the wait was worth it, he says.
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