The six member bench of the appealed division of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the adjournment order after concluding third day's hearing on the appeal.
During the day's hearing Anisul Haque, principle state counsel in the case, told the court that the then home secretary, the then inspector general of police and DIG EA Chowdhury went to Bangabhaban to inform about the killing of the national leaders to the then president Khandaker Mostaque Ahmed on November 3 in 1975.
Khandaker Mostaque informed them through his military secretary that he knew everything about the killing and there was no necessity to hold an inquiry about the killing, Anisul Haque said quoting prosecution witness EA Chowdhury.
The counsel on Wednesday placed a statement of three prosecution witnesses including EA Chowdhury before the apex court.
Earlier, he placed statement of ten prosecution witnesses in this case before the court.
The six acquitted army personnel are Marfat Ali Shah, Abdul Hashem Mridha, Lt Col (dismissed) Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Lt Col (retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda and Maj (Retd) AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed.
The government filed the appeal with the apex court in 2011.
In 2004, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka awarded death sentence to three former army personnel and life imprisonment to 12 others in the case.
The metropolitan court had sentenced to death Muslemuddin, Marfat Ali and Abdul Hashem.
And the 12 awarded life imprisonment are Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, Lt Col (dismissed) Khondaker Abdur Rashid, Lt Col (relieved) Shariful Haq Dalim, Lt Col (retd) SHMB Noor Chowdhury, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Lt Col (retd) AM Rashed Chowdhury, Maj (relieved) Ahmed Shariful Hossain, Capt (retd) Abdul Majed, Capt (relieved) Kismat Hasem and Capt (relieved) Nazmul Hossain for abetting the killers.
The HC in its verdict on August 28, 2008, upheld the capital punishment of Muslemuddin and acquitted Marfat and Hashem.
It exempted from the case Farooq, Shahriar, Mohiuddin and Bazlul Huda, who were already executed in the Bangabandhu assassination case, and did not say anything about the eight others given life term by the lower court.
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