Sylhet: A court on Tuesday indicted Badrul Alam, a suspended BCL leader of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit, in a case filed for attacking college girl Khadija Akter on 3 October.

Sylhet Metropolitan Chief Judicial Magistrate Saifuzzaman Hiru framed charges against Badrul after rejecting his bail petition and fixed 5 December for taking statements from witnesses.

Following the court order, the trial of the case filed for attacking college girl Khadija Akhter began through framing charges against lone accused Badrul.

A total of 36 people were made prosecution witness in the case.

On 15 November, Sylhet Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Umme Saraban Tahura accepted the charge sheet against Badrul in the case.

Khadija Begum Nargis, 23, daughter of Mashuk Miah and a student of Sylhet Govt Women’s College, was stabbed repeatedly by Badrul on her way home from college on October 3.  Badrul hacked Khadija mercilessly after she reportedly rejected his offer to have an affair with him.

Hearing the victim’s screams, locals rescued Khadija and caught Badrul from the spot and handed him over to police after giving him a good thrashing.

Khadija was taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital from where she was moved to Dhaka as her condition deteriorated.

Now she is undergoing treatment at Savar Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) hospital.

On October 5, Badrul Alam confessed to hacking Khadija in his statement he made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc).

Police submitted chargesheet against the lone accused Badrul on 8 November.