The trial of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad's murder case against 25 accused began at a Dhaka tribunal today, with the deposition of the complainant.

Judge Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka recorded the statement of complainant Md Barkat Ullah, the father of the victim, for over an hour.

Later, defence for accused Anik Sarkar started cross-examination of the complainant. As the defence could not complete cross-examination, the judge fixed tomorrow for the next hearing of the case.

In his statement, the complainant told the court that he came to know from people that some students of Buet's Sher-e-Bangla Hall, in a pre-planned way, beat his son Abrar Fahad to death.

Later he came to Dhaka and discussed with some students and teachers and came to know from CCTV footage that 19 students, including Anik Sarkar, beat up his son mercilessly with cricket stumps, sticks and skipping rope, sometime between 8:05pm on October 6 and 2:30am on October 7 last year,with anintent to kill him.