Mufti Abdul Hannan. — UNB file photo
The Appellate Division on Sunday rejected the review petition filed by Mufti Abdul Hannan, chief of banned outfit Harkatul-Jihad Al Islami, and its two other leaders against their death sentences for murdering three persons and injuring former UK high commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.
The verdict was delivered by a three-judge bench chaired by Chief Justice SK Sinha paving the way of executions of Hannan, Sharif Shahidul Alam Bipul, and Md Delwar Hossain Ripon.
Lawyers said the convicts now only can seek presidential clemency against their death sentences.
On May 21, 2004, assistant police sub-inspector Kamal Uddin and by standers Rubel and Habil Mia were killed on the spot while Anwar Chowhury and the then Sylhet deputy commissioner Abul Hossain were injured besides 38 others by grenades thrown by the Huji men as the British high commissioner was about to enter the shrine.
Source: New Age
