Shawdesh desk:

The death references of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case have reached the High Court for examining the lower court verdict.

The death reference reached the branch concerned of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, said Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Special Officer of the SC.

Now further action will be taken as per rules, he added.

According to the law, if a convict is sentenced to death in a lower court, all the documents of the case are sent to the High Court for approval of the penalty. It is then included in the branch concerned of the High Court as a death reference case.

Later, when the case ‘Paperbook’- file containing all the documents- is prepared, the hearing of the death reference is held following the serial.

On January 31, a Cox’s Bazar court sentenced former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and former inspector of Baharchhara Police Investigation Centre Liaqat Ali to death, and six other people to life imprisonment for killing Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

The six lifers are dismissed Sub-inspector Nanda Dulal Rakshit, constables Sagar Deb and Rubel Sharma and police informants Md Nezamuddin, Ruhul Amin and Ayaz Uddin.

According to the case statement, Sinha was shot to death by Liaqat at a checkpoint on the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive on the night of July 31, 2020.

Sinha’s sister Sharmin filed a case with a court against nine policemen on August 5, 2020, terming the incident a cold-blooded murder.