Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das. File photo

A Sylhet court yesterday deferred the charge framing date of science writer and blogger Ananta murder case to June 30, and ordered to change the court.

Ananta Bijoy Das, an organiser of 'Biggan and Juktibadi Council' and Gonojagoron Mancha in Sylhet, was brutally hacked to death in broad daylight at Subidbazar area in Sylhet city on May 12, 2015 by a group of 'radical Islamists'. After three years, charges against the accused are yet to be framed.

Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md. Akbar Hossain Mridha ordered to shift the case to Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, and set the new charge framing date to June 30, said Advocate Mofur Ali, public prosecutor of the court.

On May 9 last year, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed a supplementary charge sheet to a Sylhet court, accusing six persons and acquitting ten others in a case filed over the murder.

Two of the accused Mannan Rahi and Abul Khaer, are students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust). Mannan confessed before a court on September 2, 2015 that he along with Khaer and three others hacked the blogger with a machete for his write-ups “promoting freethinking”.

Three other accused are on the run.

Ananta's brother Ratneswar Das had filed a murder case the day after Ananta was killed, accusing some unnamed persons with the airport police station.

The investigation was later handed over to CID, who pressed a charge sheet and October 18, 2016. The court rejected the charge sheet and ordered CID to reinvestigate the case and file a supplementary charge sheet, which was filed on May 9 last year.