Court Correspondent :
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday (Tuesday) released the full text of its verdict on the review petition of Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami (HuJi) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his two associates challenging their death sentences.
The Appellate Division upheld the death penalty of three activists of banned militant outfit HuJi on Sunday in a case filed in connection with the grenade attack on the then British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, in 2004. The verdict text will now be sent to the High Court and then to the jail via judicial court in order to execute the verdict.
On 11 February last year, a High Court bench, comprising justice M Enayetur Rahim and justice Amir Hossain, delivered the verdict upholding the death sentence for three
accused- Mufti Abdul Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam and Delwar Hossain and life-term imprisonment of two others- Mufti Hannan’s brother Mohibullah and Mufti Moinuddin as handed down by the subordinate court.
British envoy Anwar Choudhury and 51 others were injured while three, including two police officials, were killed in the grenade attack at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) shrine in Sylhet on 21 May 2004.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday (Tuesday) released the full text of its verdict on the review petition of Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami (HuJi) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his two associates challenging their death sentences.
The Appellate Division upheld the death penalty of three activists of banned militant outfit HuJi on Sunday in a case filed in connection with the grenade attack on the then British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, in 2004. The verdict text will now be sent to the High Court and then to the jail via judicial court in order to execute the verdict.
On 11 February last year, a High Court bench, comprising justice M Enayetur Rahim and justice Amir Hossain, delivered the verdict upholding the death sentence for three
accused- Mufti Abdul Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam and Delwar Hossain and life-term imprisonment of two others- Mufti Hannan’s brother Mohibullah and Mufti Moinuddin as handed down by the subordinate court.
British envoy Anwar Choudhury and 51 others were injured while three, including two police officials, were killed in the grenade attack at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) shrine in Sylhet on 21 May 2004.
