Staff Reporter :
Two accused, Abdul Mokim and Golam Rasul Jharu, were executed in Jashore Central Jail on November 16 in 2017.
Their lawyer Md Humayun Kabir on Wednesday claimed that their appeal petitions are still pending with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.
However, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin said there was no violation of law in executing the two accused.
While briefing to the reporters in his office, the Attorney General on Thursday said, death sentence of the two convicts was executed following the due process of law, after the rejection of a jail appeal and mercy petition filed by them in a murder case. And no law was violated in this regard, added the Attorney General.
After the claim of lawyer Md Humayun Kabir regarding the execution of the two accused it created a wide-spread discussion everywhere. Some media published reports that they were executed before the finality of the pending appeals.
AM Amin Uddin said, “After an inquire, I came to know that the accused (Mokim and Jharu) appealed to the court from the jail. The then Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha rejected that jail appeal on November 15 in 2016. But the accused made another appeal (regular appeal) which came to the cause-list of the Appellate Division on Wednesday.”
“Only direct appeal petition is heard and ‘leave to appeal petition’ is not heard. And that is why the petition was pending in the cause-list. But it was the responsibility of the concerned lawyer to hold hearing on the two petitions jointly or to bring the matter to the attention of the court. As he didn’t bring the matter to the attention of the court only the jail appeal was heard by the court and the court after hearing dismissed that.”
“After the rejection of the jail appeal, the accused sought mercy from the President and that was also dismissed. Then the jail authorities executed their sentences.”
“Here, regular appeal petition was filed separately. It is pending for hearing as it was not tagged with the jail appeal.
