A Dhaka court has deferred its verdict in a case filed over the murder of model Syeda Tania Mahbub Tinni in 2002.

The court was scheduled to deliver the verdict on Monday, but Additional District and Sessions Judge 7 Keshob Roy Chowdhury deferred it again.

The court deferred the verdict as it has not heard two key witnesses, Assistant Public Prosecutor Bholanath Datta and Salim Ullah (Khasru) said.

The testimonies of Tinni's father Mahbub Karim and uncle Rezaul Karim were not recorded during the trial, they added.

Eight years after the murder, the court indicted former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker from Barisal-2 (Banaripara and Wazirpur) and student leader Golam Faruq Ovi in July, 2010.

Tinni was found dead under the China-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge over the Buriganga River on November 10, 2002.

A case was filed with Keraniganj Police Station against ‘unidentified’ perpetrators on the same day and police arrested Tinni’s former husband Shafakat Ahmed Pial and four others, including Swapan Gazi, Gazi Sharifullah Tapan, Shafiqul Islam Jewel and Somnath Saha Bappy, in connection with the murder. 

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed charge against Ovi in November 2008, dropping Pial and the others.

BDST: 1346 HRS, NOV 15, 2021
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