Mufti Hannan’s execution order reaches jail authorities
Mufti Hannan’s execution order reaches jail authorities
Ittefaq Report
The execution order for Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJI) chief Mufti Hannan has reached the jail authorities in a case filed for the 2004 grenade attack on the UK envoy in Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury.
Deputy inspector general of the prisons, Mohammad Towhidul Islam said the directive reached the jail authorities after 10:00am.
The time of execution will be fixed after the matter is discussed by the higher officials.
The execution is usually held between 21 and 28 days of the death warrant being read out to the convicted.
The jail authorities read the death warrant to Mufti Hannan and his two associates–Sharif Shahedul Alam and Delwar Hossain on 21 March this year.
Previously, the President rejected their mercy petitions leaving no further legal bar in executing the death sentences of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two others.
The Appellate Division on March 19 upheld the death sentence of Mufti Hannan, Delwar Alias Ripon and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul after hearing the review petitions filed by the three death-row convicts.
It released the full text of its verdict on March 21.
On December 7, 2016, an SC bench, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, upheld the death penalty of the three in the case rejecting appeals filed by the Huji chief and Bipul challenging the High Court verdict that had upheld their death sentence awarded by the tribunal.
In 2004, the then British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury came under a grenade attack while coming out of Hazrat Shahjalal’s shrine in his hometown Sylhet.
The envoy and 40 employees of the Sylhet district administration were injured in the attack.
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