Staff Reporter :
The execution order for Mufti Abdul Hannan, the Chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJI), reached the Kashimpur High Security Prison on Monday morning.
He is the main accused in a case filed in connection with the grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, in 2004. “The Home Ministry’s order stating that the President has rejected the mercy petition of Mufti Hannan arrived at the jail office in the morning,” Mizanur Rahman, Senior Jail Superintendent of Kashimpur High Security Prison.
Deputy Inspector General of the Prisons (Dhaka Range) Mohammad Towhidul Islam said the directive reached the jail authorities after 10:00am.
The time of execution will be fixed after discussing the matter with the high-ups, Islam added.
The jail authorities said the execution is usually held between 21 and 28 days of the death warrant being read out to the convict.
“All necessary preparations to execute Mufti Hannan is underway as per the Jail Code,” the official said.
The jail authorities read the death warrant to Mufti Hannan and his two associates–Sharif Shahedul Alam and Delwar Hossain–on 21 March.
The execution proceedings began as the President rejected their pleas for Presidential clemency on 9 April.
Finally, on 19 March, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of the three HuJI men for the grenade attack. The UK envoy, Anwar Choudhury, and 51 others were injured while three, including two police officials, were killed in a grenade attack at Hazrat Shahjalal’s (RA) shrine in Sylhet.
