Security beefed up ahead of 21 August grenade attack verdict

Security has been tightened in and around the tribunal area in Old Dhaka ahead of the 21 August grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital in 2004.

The Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 at Old Dhaka's Nazimuddin Road is scheduled to deliver verdict in the two cases filed over the 21 August grenade attack.

The vehicular movement on the roads adjacent to in the area have been stopped. Many of the shops were seen shut there.

Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 may deliver the verdict.

At least 24 leaders and activists, including AL's women affairs secretary and late president Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and Sheikh Hasina among 300 others injured in the grisly grenade attack carried out on 21 August 2004 on an anti-terrorism rally arranged by Awami League on the Bangabandhu Avenue during the BNP-Jamaat regime.