Tribunal: Charges to be framed over cornice shooting, Rampura deaths on Tuesday

A tribunal is set to frame charges on Tuesday in a crimes against humanity case over the shooting of a young man clinging to the cornice of a building in Dhaka’s Rampura during the July Uprising, and the killing of two others. On Thursday, a three-member bench of Tribunal 1, led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, scheduled the date for the order after hearing arguments from both sides. Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam urged the court to proceed with the framing of charges. Defence lawyer Md Amir Hossain, appointed by the state for the absconding accused, and Sarwar Jahan Nippon, representing the lone arrested suspect, former assistant sub-inspector Chanchal Chandra Sarkar, argued for acquittal. The case also names four others,...