Staff Reporter:
The High Court (HC) yesterday upheld a lower court judgment convicting and sentencing 20 people to death and five more to life imprisonment in a case lodged over the brutal killing of Bangladesh Univer-sity of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad.
A High Court division bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain passed the verdict after hearing the convicts’ death references and jail appeals.
The High Court on February 24, 2025, kept the judgment on CAV (court awaits verdict) as the legal arguments came to an end in the case on that day.
Abrar was brutally beaten to death on October 7, 2019, by some leaders of the then BUET unit Chhatra League over his posts on Facebook.
Abrar’s father filed the case with Chawkbazar thana against 19 students of BUET. Police later included the names of six others in the list of the accused after the investigation.
Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on December 8, 2021, convicted and sentenced 20 people to death and five accused to life imprisonment in the case.
