State prosecutors of Bangabandhu Murder Case.

Chief government prosecutor in the Bangabandhu murder case Advocate Anisul Huq  on Wednesday said that there was no scope to commute the death sentence of the killers of Bangabandhu and his family members to life imprisonment in view of their involvement in the gruesome acts of killing.

On the other hand, defense counsel Barrister Abdullah-al Mamun prayed to the court to reduce the death sentence to life imprisonment to his clients and other convicts in the case considering their incarceration for a long time.
 Both prosecution and defence lawyers made these contradictory pleas during the hearing on the appeal of the Bangabandhu murder case before the five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Justice Tafazzal Islam.

In his argument, Anisul Huq submitted before the court that the mutineers' trial had already been completed in the killing of late president Ziaur Rahman. But the trial of his ( Zia) murder case,  now pending  with the trial court,  is yet  to  be completed , he added.

Citing rules, the chief prosecutor replied that the killers had brutally killed Bangabandhu. They did not even spare the life of his son Sheikh Russel, who was a ten years old boy at that time. Besides, the killers mercilessly killed three innocent women and one of them was pregnant.  There was no scope to commute the their death sentence to the life term as they had dastardly killed the innocent men and women, he pleaded before the court.