{"id":39435,"date":"2025-08-20T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?p=39435"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:23:37","slug":"august-21-attack-case-defendants-side-in-appeal-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?p=39435&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"August 21 attack case: Defendant&#8217;s side in appeal hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth day of the hearing of the appeal filed by the state against the verdict of acquitting all the accused, including BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, in the August 21 grenade attack case has begun. On Wednesday (August 20) morning, the fourth day of the hearing began at the six-judge bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Dr. Syed Refaat Ahmed. On December 1, the High Court acquitted all the accused, including BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, in the case of Murder and Explosives Act in the August 21 grenade attack case. Later, the state appealed against that verdict. On August 21, 2004, a grenade attack took place at a rally of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Bangabandhu Avenue. 24 Awami League leaders and workers were killed in that incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth day of the hearing of the appeal filed by the state against the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh-en"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1",1280,720,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1",1280,720,true],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?resize=1115%2C715&ssl=1",1115,715,true],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?resize=800%2C500&ssl=1",800,500,true],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1",1024,576,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?resize=540%2C340&ssl=1",540,340,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?resize=400%2C250&ssl=1",400,250,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Biz Trend 24","author_link":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/author\/online24"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?cat=103&#038;lang=en\" rel=\"category\">Bangladesh<\/a>","tag_info":"Bangladesh","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biztrend24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-2025-08-20T122148.478-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29425,"url":"https:\/\/biztrend24.com\/?p=29425&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":39435,"position":0},"title":"August 21 grenade attack: State&#8217;s leave to appeal hearing tomorrow","author":"Biz Trend 24","date":"May 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The state's leave to appeal hearing against the verdict acquitting all the accused in the August 21 grenade attack case is tomorrow. 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