Verdict in model Sayeda Tania Mahbub Tinni killing case will be pronounced on Monday (November 15) against former Jatiya Party (Japa) lawmaker Golam Faruk Ovi.
Judge Keshab Ray Chowdhury of Dhaka additional district and session court-7 will pass the judgment 19 years after the sensational murder was reported.
“The court deferred the verdict as the judgment is not ready yet in the case,” Assistant Public Prosecutor Bholanath Datta told media.
Eight years after the murder, the court indicted Ovi in July 2010.
On November 10, 2002, Tinni's body was found under China-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge over the Buriganga River and a case was filed with Keraniganj police station the same day.
Following the incident, police arrested Tinni's former husband Shafakat Ahmed Pial and four others -- Swapan Gazi, Gazi Sharifullah Tapan, Shafiqul Islam Jewel and Somnath Saha Bappy.
However, when the Criminal Investigation Department pressed charge against Ovi in November 2008, it dropped Pial and the others.
Investigators said Ovi killed Tinni to hide his “illicit relationship” with her under wraps. According to the charge sheet, Ovi murdered her when she became persistent in her demand to give her social recognition through marriage.
Soon after the murder, Ovi moved to Canada after securing bail and challenging a 1992 trial court verdict, which sentenced him to 17 years in jail in an arms case, says the charge sheet filed with the court.
