Aug 21 grenade attack case verdict Oct 10

The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 on Tuesday said it would deliver its verdict in August 21 grenade attack cases on October 10.

After completing the hearing of arguments in the cases for August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally, the tribunal judge Shahed Nuruddin passed the order on the day.

The court also rejected the bail of eight accused and issued an order to send them to jail.

On August 21, 2004, the grisly grenade attack was carried out on a rally arranged by Awami League at Bangabandhu Avenue during the BNP-Jamaat alliance's rule, aiming to kill then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina.

At least 24 leaders and activists, including AL's women affairs secretary and late president Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and 300 others injured in the grenade attack.

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