The High Court today cleared the way for a lower court to resume the trial proceedings in cadet college student Sharmila Shaharin Pollen murder case.

The High Court bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Mahmudul Hoque rejected a petition jointly filed by five accused for scrapping the trial proceedings of the case.

The court also lifted its earlier order that stayed the trial proceedings of the case.

Sharmila Shaharin Pollen, 18, a second-year student and daughter of retired Air Force officer Abul Bashar Patwary of Chandpur, was found dead in the bathroom of her dormitory “Shanti House” of the college on February 11, 2005.

The victim’s father lodged a case with the Cognisance Court No-1 on February 19, 2005.

The accused are: the then adjutant Maj Nazmul Haque, the college's associate professor Abul Hossain, the then sergeant Nawsher-uz-Zaman, the then security guard Hena Begum, and the then deputy adjutant general Maj Monir Ahmed Chowdhury of the Army Headquarters. One of them remains absconding.