A Dhaka court on Thursday accepted the charge-sheet against 10 people including the editor of the Daily Prothom Alo Motiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Residential Model College ninth-grader Naimul Abrar Rahat and also set October 13 for the hearing of charge framing against the accused.
Judge KM Imrul Kayesh of the Metropolitan Session Judge Courts' in Dhaka took the charge sheet into cognisance on Thursday.
Earlier on September 20, a Dhaka court transferred a case lodged over the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat against 10 people including the editor of the Daily Prothom Alo Motiur Rahman, as it is ready for holding a trial.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim passed the order in presence of the accused.
The nine other accused are -- Editor of Kishor Alo, a publication of the Prothom Alo, Anisul Hoque; Prothom Alo's Senior Sub-editor Mohitul Alam; head of the event and activation Kabir Bakul; executives Shah Paran Tushar and Shuvashish Pramanik; and Jasim Uddin, Mosharraf Hossain, Sujon and Kamrul Hawlader, who were in charge of providing electricity supply for the function.
The court on September 3 granted bail to Anisul Hoque, Mohitul Alam, Kabir Bakul, Shah Paran Tushar and Shuvashish Pramanik in the case. It came up with the order as the accused surrendered before the court and pleaded for bail in the case.
The court had come up with that order a day after it directed the authorities concerned to attach the properties of those five accused.
Ninth-grader Naimul Abrar Rahat died after being electrocuted behind the stage at an event organised by the Kishor Alo, a publication of the Prothom Alo, at Dhaka Residential Model College ground on November 1, 2019.
On November 6, 2019, Naimul’s father Mojibur Rahman filed the case with the court in this connection.
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