DHAKA, Nov 17, 2022 (BSS) - The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today set November 24 for holding hearing on pleas to review its judgment, upholding death sentence of two convicts - Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin and Jahangir Alam - in a case lodged over murder of Rajshahi University Prof Dr S Taher Ahmed.

A four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique set the date today, in presence of Attorney General AM Amin Uddin.

"The apex court asked for keeping the matter on top of the cause list on that day," Supreme Court lawyer and Prof S Taher's daughter Advocate Shagufta Tabassum Ahmed told BSS.

The apex court on September 14 published the 68-page verdict upholding the death sentence of two convicts, Rajshahi University teacher Dr Miah Mohammad Mohiuddin and then caretaker at Prof S Taher's residence Jahangir Alam.

Dr S Taher Ahmed, Professor of Rajshahi University Department of Geology and Mining, was killed on February 1, 2006 and police recovered his body from a septic tank behind his residence on the university campus on February 3 the same year. His son Sanjid Alvi Ahmed filed the case with Motihar Police Station on the same day.

Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal on May 22, 2008, sentenced for accused to death and acquitted two others of the charges.

The High Court after holding hearing on the death reference and appeals of the convicts, pronounced its judgment on April 21, 2013. It confirmed the death sentence of the then RU teacher Dr Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin and Jahangir Alam for their involvement in the gruesome murder.

On February 22 this year, the apex court started hearing on the appeals filed by the convicts challenging the HC verdict against them. The Appellate Division on April 5, 2022, upheld the High Court verdict.