DHAKA: Execution of Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJi) top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and two other militants could happen any day as all the preparations have been completed in this regard.

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this while talking to the journalists at his office in the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday (April 09).   

He said that there is no bar to execute the death sentence of Mufti Hannan and two others, as the President rejected their mercy petition. The jail authorities have completed all the preparations to execute them.

‘Mufti Hannan’s execution will be implemented abiding by the rules in accordance with the jail code,’ he said.

Earlier on March 19, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court rejected their review petitions, upholding the death penalty of three HuJi men in the case filed for the grenade attack on the-then UK envoy in Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury in 2004.

On March 21, full text of the Appellate Division’s verdict was released on the review petition. The copy of the verdict reached Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur and Sylhet Central Jail following release of the verdict.

On March 27, the three condemned convicts– Mufti Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain Ripon– sought presidential clemency. Later, their petitions were sent to the President.

President Abdul Hamid has rejected the petitions for clemency, clearing the way of their executions.

BDST: 1552 HRS, APR 09, 2017
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