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The Bangladesh Supreme Court constituted a five-member Bench for final hearing of an appeal in a case of murder of the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on Oct. 4 eight and a half years after 12 former Army officers were awarded death penalty in the case. The High Court had upheld the death penalty against 12 ex-Army officers in the case. Five of them who are now in jail to face the trial filed the appeal prayers while six are on the run abroad and the 12th convict has already died ...