Khulna Correspondent :
The stage is set to hang Asadul Islam alias Arif, a leader of Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) at Khulna Central Jail Sunday night for killing two senior assistant Judges of Jhalokathi district-Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pandey in 2005.
Asad might be hanged after 10.30 pm on Sunday, according to jail sources.”All preparations have been completed to carry out the execution of JMB leader Asadul Islam on Sunday night,” Khulna Central Jail’s superintendent Jannatul Farhad told journalists on Sunday.
Talking to journalists Md. Nur-e-Alam, additional district magistrate of Khulna district administration said an intensified security vigil was enforced in and around the prison complex where extra policemen joined jail guards.
“Authorities temporarily blocked adjacent thoroughfares for ordinary vehicles and pedestrians movements,” he added.
Authorities earlier on March 30, 2006 executed simultaneously six of the seven condemned militants – JMB’s founder chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman, his deputy Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, Khaled Saifullah, Abdul Awal, Ataur Rahman Suny and Iftekhar Hassan Mamun – at different jails.
They all faced the trial in person but the seventh convict, Arif, was on the run since the 2005 murder of two judges Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pare. Law enforcement agencies arrested him from Mymensingh on July 10, 2007.
The outfit made visible their strong existence in the country staging near simultaneous blasts in 63 of the 64 districts on August 17, 2005 when only two people were killed as JMB at that visibly preferred not to use the splinters in their homemade time devices.
Additional District and Sessions Judge of Jhalkhathi Tarique Ahmed Reza on May 29, 2006 had sentenced the seven JMB leaders to death on charges of the judges murders. The JMB assailants killed the judges while they were going to the court in a microbus.
