BSS:

A special prosecutor of an Explosive Substances Act case filed with Lalbagh Police Station over the 2009 BDR mutiny, said a fire has burned down the makeshift courtroom raised on the premises of Government Madrasah-E-Alia in the capital’s Bakshibazar area.

“The courtroom has been burnt. At this stage, conducting trial here is not possible without a major renovation,” special public prosecutor Md Borhan Uddin told BSS.

Thursday  was fixed for holding hearing of the case in the makeshift courtroom. The courtroom however, was gutted in a fire early this morning. Judge Ibrahim Miah, of Special Tribunal-1 flanked by prosecution teams and other concerned lawyers visited the courtroom at 11.45 am. The judge left the place at 12.10 pm.

Confirming the matter to special public prosecutor Md Borhan Uddin said the date of the hearing would be deferred and a new date to be fixed later.

Meanwhile, students of the madrasah staged protest for relocating the makeshift courtroom from their premises. They had set up barricades in Dhaka Medical College Hospital intersection, old central jail area and Bakshibazar orphanage road in the morning, which were later cleared by the members of the army and police.