The Appellate Division\u2019s Chamber Court has stayed the acquittal granted to Ishaq Ali, a militant of the outlawed Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh for the murder of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi.<\/p>\n
Justice M Enayetur Rahim made the decision on Sunday after the state petitioned against the High Court\u2019s verdict.<\/p>\n
Additional Attorney General Sheikh Mohammad Morshed filed the petition on behalf of the state, accompanied by Assistant Attorney General Saiful Alam.<\/p>\n
The chamber court suspended the acquittal for eight weeks and asked the state to seek permission to open a formal appeal within that time, according to Morshed.<\/p>\n
On Sept 21, the High Court acquitted 34-year-old Ishaq Ali, who was condemned to death by the trial court, in the murder of Kunio Hoshi. However, it upheld the death sentences for four other JMB militants.<\/p>\n
In 2017, a Rangpur court handed down the death penalty to five people for actively participating in the killing of Kunio Hoshi, a sexagenarian Japanese man who had made Bangladesh his home for decades.<\/p>\n
According to the case dossier, Kunio was shot dead by a group of masked JMB militants riding motorcycles as he was heading to his farm in the remote village of Rangpur.<\/p>\n
The killing was similar to that of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella in Dhaka a week earlier, and the attacks on foreigners in Bangladesh made international headlines at the time.<\/p>\n
Syria-based terrorist group Islamic State had reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the government rebuffed it, saying the radical group had no presence in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
Police later pressed charges against six JMB operatives, one of whom is still on the run.<\/p>\n
The death reference and appeals came before the High Court on Mar 7, 2017, and it began hearing the matter on Sept 4 this year before delivering its verdict last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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