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Expressing satisfaction with the High Court's verdict, Abrar Fahad's father, Mohammad Barkat Ullah, said, "We are currently satisfied with this verdict. We hope the subsequent processes will be completed quickly, and the verdict will be implemented." He made these remarks immediately after the verdict was announced on Sunday.
Earlier, the High Court upheld the death sentences for twenty convicts and life imprisonment for five others, as originally handed down by a lower court, in the high-profile murder case of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad.
A bench of Justices AKM Asaduzzaman and Syed Enayet Hossain issued the order after reviewing the death references and the convicts' appeals.
Abrar Fahad, a second-year student in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department and a resident of Sher-e-Bangla Hall at BUET, was brutally beaten to death by leaders and activists of the university's Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the night of October 6, 2019, over a Facebook post in which he criticized certain deals between Bangladesh and India.
Later, Abrar's father, Barkat Ullah, filed a case at Chawkbazar police station against 19 BUET students in connection with the incident.
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