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RU Prof Taher murder: SC rejects review plea of 3 convicts.

RU Prof Taher murder: SC rejects review plea of 3 convicts

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The Supreme Court Thursday (March 2) rejected the petition of two death row convicts and one of lifers for reviewing the verdict in RU Professor S Taher Ahmed murder case.

Now, there is no bar to execute the death sentence of Mohiuddin, the then Rajshahi University teacher, and Jahangir, the then caretaker of Prof Taher's residence.

The death-row convicts will only get the chance to seek presidential mercy.

An eight-member SC bench, led by Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order today in presence of slain Prof Taher's wife Sultana Ahmed and daughter lawyer Shegufta Tabassum Ahmed.

The lifers in the case are Nazmul Alam and Abdus Salam, relatives of caretaker Jahangir Alam.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin and Additional Attorney General Sheikh Mohamamd Morshed were present during the review petition hearing.

Prof Taher’s body was recovered from a drain near his residence, two days after he went missing on February 1, 2006.

The murder case was filed at Motihar police station in Rajshahi on February 3, following a complaint lodged by his son Sanzid.

A Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal on May 22, 2008, sentenced four people to death in the case and acquitted two others, including former RU Chhatra Shibir president Mahbubul Alam Salehi.

On May 13, 2013, the High Court upheld the death penalty of Mohiuddin and Jahangir, but sentenced Salam and Nazmul to imprisonment until death.