A Dhaka court on Monday set October 9 for pronouncing judgment in a case lodged over the killing of one Taslima Begum Renu in a mob beating in the North Badda area in the capital in 2019.
Today was fixed for pronouncing the judgement, but Dhaka 6th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Murshid Ahammed deferred the date as the judgment is yet to be readied.
Taslima Begum Renu, 40, a single mother of two, was brutally beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being a child lifter, in front of North Badda Government Primary School in the morning of July 20, 2019.
It was later learned that Renu went there to get information regarding the admission of her daughter Tahsin Tuba, 4, to that school. Renu's nephew Nasir Uddin filed the case with Badda Police Station against 400-500 unidentified people.
Police scrutinising the vicious video clippings of the incident managed to arrest almost all the culprits, including Ria Begum Moyna, who started the ruckus by terming Renu a child lifter, and Ibrahim Hossain Hridoy, the man who was seen most active in beating Renu, even thrashing her seemingly lifeless body.
Police on September 10, 2020, filed the charge sheet against 15 and the court on April 1, 2021, framed charges against 13. A total of 19 out of 36 testified in the case and were cross-examined by the defence.
