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The four organisers of the 1971 Liberation War -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, M Mansur Ali, AHM Qamaruzzaman were assassinated in captivity by some Army officers. The incident took place 79 days after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members were killed on August 15, 1975.
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Kazi Abdul Awal, the then deputy inspector general (prison) of police filed a murder case with the Lalbagh police against four persons
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Police submitted charge sheet against 23 people.
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the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka passed the verdict in the case sentencing three people to death and 12 to life in prison
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the High Court (HC) acquitted six former military men of charges in the killing case.
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the state appealed against the jail killings verdict pronounced by the High court.
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the Appellate Division started hearing on the state appeal.