MUFTI’S DEATH SENTENCE SC verdict reaches jail

The copy of the Appellate Division full verdict dismissing the petitions seeking review of the death sentences of Harkatul-Jihad Al Islami, Bangladesh chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two other Huji leaders reached the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail on Tuesday night.
The trio was convicted for murdering three people and leaving former UK high commissioner Anwar Choudhury injured. 
Earlier in the afternoon, the Appellate Division released a five-page full verdict in which the apex court on Sunday upheld the death sentences of Mufti Hannan, Sharif Shahidul Alam Bipul, and Md Delwar Hossain Ripon for the triple murders by throwing bombs in 2004.
Mufti Hannan and Sharif Shahidul Alam Bipul have been put in the condemned cells of the high security jail and Delwar Hossain Ripon in the condemned cell of Sylhet Central Jail, the prison officials said.
A copy of the verdict was also sent to Sylhet Central Jail, said the official. 
The convicts will be executed between 21 and 28 days after the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail receives the copy of the apex court’s order as the Jail Code requires, the prison’s senior superintendent Md Mizanur Rahman told New Age on Sunday.
He said that the convicts had the option to seek the president’s clemency during the period. 
The jail superintendent may inquire Hannan and Bipul at their condemned cells today (Wednesday) whether he would opt for a presidential clemency, the prison officials said.
In the sensational case the convicts threw several grenades aiming at the entrance of the Hazrat Shahjalal’s shrine in Sylhet on May 21, 2004 with the intent of murdering the then UK high commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Chowdhury when he was about to enter the shrine.
Anwar Chowdhury, Sylhet DC Abul Hossain and 36 bystanders were injured while assistant police sub-inspector Kamal Uddin and two bystanders were killed in the grenade attack. 

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