bdnews24.com :
Prison authorities have read out the death warrant to militant group Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI,B) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan.
The banned terrorist outfit’s head, who has been
convicted for the 2004 Sylhet grenade attack on former British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in, said he would seek a review of the verdict.
On Dec 7 last year the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence over the attack at a shrine in the north-eastern Bangladesh city. After the top court’s verdict, the trial court issued the death warrant, which reached Gazipur’s Kashimpur Jail on Friday. The warrant was read out to the death row convict the same day, said Senior Jail Superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman.
The last legal battle left for the HujI,B chief now is to seek for a review of the verdict and the deadline to file a petition is Feb 17. If the court turnsit down, his last-ditch attempt to save his neck would be to ask for presidential clemency after admitting his guilt. On May 21, 2004, Choudhury came under grenade attack while coming out of Hazrat Shahjalal’s shrine only a few days after his appointment as the British envoy to Dhaka.
Three policemen were killed and over 50 were injured, including Choudhury, in an attack the trial court found to be an attempt on the high commissioner’s life.
The investigation officer of the case, Criminal Investigation Department’s then additional superintendent of police Munshi Atiqur Rahman, found HuJI’s involvement in the grenade attack.
HuJI Sylhet region organiser Bipul and militant leader Ripon were arrested on Sept 4, 2006 from Sylhet.
Both confessed their involvement at the court. Atiqur Rahman pressed charges in the much-talked-about case on Jul 29, 2007 with the court, accusing four of the convicts. On March 11, 2007, another supplementary chargesheet was pressed with the court that included the name of Abu Zandal as accused. A Sylhet court sentenced three persons, including Hannan to death and ordered life imprisonment for two others. The HuJI chief challenged it in the High Court, but failed to get a verdict in his favour. He then moved the Appellate Division, which also upheld the death penalty.
Prison authorities have read out the death warrant to militant group Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI,B) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan.
The banned terrorist outfit’s head, who has been
convicted for the 2004 Sylhet grenade attack on former British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in, said he would seek a review of the verdict.
On Dec 7 last year the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence over the attack at a shrine in the north-eastern Bangladesh city. After the top court’s verdict, the trial court issued the death warrant, which reached Gazipur’s Kashimpur Jail on Friday. The warrant was read out to the death row convict the same day, said Senior Jail Superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman.
The last legal battle left for the HujI,B chief now is to seek for a review of the verdict and the deadline to file a petition is Feb 17. If the court turnsit down, his last-ditch attempt to save his neck would be to ask for presidential clemency after admitting his guilt. On May 21, 2004, Choudhury came under grenade attack while coming out of Hazrat Shahjalal’s shrine only a few days after his appointment as the British envoy to Dhaka.
Three policemen were killed and over 50 were injured, including Choudhury, in an attack the trial court found to be an attempt on the high commissioner’s life.
The investigation officer of the case, Criminal Investigation Department’s then additional superintendent of police Munshi Atiqur Rahman, found HuJI’s involvement in the grenade attack.
HuJI Sylhet region organiser Bipul and militant leader Ripon were arrested on Sept 4, 2006 from Sylhet.
Both confessed their involvement at the court. Atiqur Rahman pressed charges in the much-talked-about case on Jul 29, 2007 with the court, accusing four of the convicts. On March 11, 2007, another supplementary chargesheet was pressed with the court that included the name of Abu Zandal as accused. A Sylhet court sentenced three persons, including Hannan to death and ordered life imprisonment for two others. The HuJI chief challenged it in the High Court, but failed to get a verdict in his favour. He then moved the Appellate Division, which also upheld the death penalty.
